This is a complicated point on meta-risk: older adults were more risk seeking compared to younger adults when learning led to risk-avoidant behavior, but were more risk averse when learning led to risk-seeking behavior. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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I take it to mean: all learning is risk taking, but the results might lower or increase risk. If you learn to lift weights, it lowers risk of age-related degeneration. If you learn rock-climbing, it increases risks of plunging to your death as you take on riskier cliffs
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It seems to just be saying that more important than risk attitude is the fact that people want to learn less as they age.
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well yeah, but beyond that... the interesting point is the type of risk that people *do* take on (via learning or not...)
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Makes a case for many types of progress following sinusoidal patterns, then...


