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Defense Against the Dark Arts is a neglected story, but the world isn't just Dark Arts and defense; anyone writing explainers, designing UI, developing tools/products should be mindful that what they're doing can't just empower people but must *feel* empoweringhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1131959715162779649 …
The tragedy in most education is that it has a tendency to hand out the Weapons of the Good Side alongside commentary akin to "you can floss your teeth with this" rather than "with this, one might string the mandolin that great bards will strum to songs of struggle and victory!"
It's not just about telling stories where mundane inputs undergo processes the output great things. Subpar education can lead you to believe that great outputs are more about the inputs than the processes. Subpar toys offer you a desired result for following the script providedpic.twitter.com/I9oQuqfnpo
Increasingly, "construction" toys tell you what you'll be making and provide you so many overspecialized pieces that experimenting may only convince you that The Box Knows Best. Maybe we don't succumb to malevolent stories because we're too fanciful, but not fanciful enough!pic.twitter.com/bNUhcm0MpU
Love Harry Potter, but it basically introduced a powerful programming language largely limited to use with *still* very powerful libraries (spells, potions, etc.) and then didn't really pull on that thread. Thus tormenting @ESYudkowsky to the point of dedicating years to fanfic
Sounds/music, language, code, edible ingredients, all the stuff in your "clean this out someday" drawer — all construction sets. Think about developing reusable modules/libraries w/ them. Think about automating the mundane & staying on the bleeding edge. We don't teach like this!
IMO, someone who sees themselves as the constructor is a bit less prone to being scammed. Sleight of hand redirecting them to good-looking inputs and tantalizing outputs won't as easily distract them from a process with suspiciously opaque or incongruent elementspic.twitter.com/iyLRVBmhZ3
Construction kits (not just literal lego kits, for example, but also programming classes taught by directing you to enter one specific line after another) get you to local peaks faster. What they don't do is give you practice imagining/reimagining & iterating toward a global peak
I'm sure you can use this kit to build a decent dump truck. But it won't necessarily get you thinking about what a dump truck IS — it holds stuff, moves around, drops stuff. Build a tool without a job & jobs formerly constrained by your imagination become constrained by your toolpic.twitter.com/ISoCeLFjkg
Programmers are prone to this. Obviously, use higher-level languages, libraries, APIs, etc. -- but try to remain cognizant of what *you* are trying to do, not just what the tools permit you to do easily
Sometimes it's better to front-load the effort recreating your own specialized tools from broad, general, well-maintained & documented toolkits than to risk becoming trapped in a web of overspecialized parts. Not just practically (that too) but also psychologically!
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