I'm a fairly experienced teacher (8 semesters at college level, couple of online things) but only rarely have been motivated/engaged enough in the process to be more than mediocre at it. I generally need a stronger motive than simply being invested in students' learning/growing.
Yeah trying to "teach refactoring" the way the LW ecosystem tries to "teach rationality" seems like some sort of admission of failure of imagination to me. I did the writing course because that served a larger purpose of developing contributor pipeline. Need that kind of motive.
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I'll for sure be putting a breaking smart S1 workshop online... since it supports bigger goal of seeing more people run the playbook that I think creates more interesting tech etc. Right now trying to see what other ideas have such catalytic effects beyond learning outcomes
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that'll be cool actually. are you doing S2 or not? it has been a while.
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yeah i don't think refactoring can be taught well anyway. the whole point is imagination and selecting for students who want to learn it as a skill just seems like adverse selection, just like in the rationality movement
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Yeah, my one thought is to get at it obliquely, like a course I really want to do is on 2x2s...that's like a schezwan sauce business world mission of mine... make 2x2s great again
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