Intellectual apprenticeship: probably the only way to learn to think.
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Intellectual apprenticeship: probably the only way to learn to think.
A personal account by @vgr https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/sgjcEB1fl3
David Chapman Retweeted Eliezer Yudkowsky
As @ESYudkowsky notes, universities mostly don’t teach you to think. That’s a disaster…
But it’s difficult: intellectual apprenticeship doesn’t scale. If you are lucky, you *can* learn to think at university—if you find the right teachers—but it’s rare.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1083617589983510528 …
David Chapman added,
What you learn from a great teacher is a *style* of thinking. @vgr describes his mentor’s mode as “romantic engineering”:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/remembering-pierre-kabamba/ …pic.twitter.com/FhPB3wblDc
The preparedness component in the student is receptivity to intellectual aesthetics. This typically requires a sort of conditioned awareness of its importance from having suffered "wrong" (for you) aesthetics at the hands of teachers who don't have a style that harmonizes.
Though it was hard for me to admit for years, I did learn from guy I left for Pierre. What I learned there was style and teacher-student "fit" _matter_ at advanced levels where you're doing more than developing muscle-memory level rote skills. You can't power through on "IQ"
As a grad student on the good end of a similar story (getting back into the pleasure of just being immersed in the work with a new advisor), I appreciate this a lot. My mind occasionally credits the previous guy, but other parts quickly shut that down. Important defenses imo ;]
Yeah that's okay :) Let it take the time it needs to resolve itself. For me it took a few years after I finished to be able to think dispassionately about my false start chapter.
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