@melissa
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experiments in parenting from first principles / n=1 experiments in biohacking / internet anthropologist
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Joined February 2008
i've long noticed that elite private schools all have the same specific failure mode –– one that's particularly insidious for gifted kids. alpha school is most notable for, as far as i can tell, its rare immunity. let's call it the 'good for your age' trap
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the child's working memory is not a bottleneck. he only needs to hold the next local constraint, the board remembers the rest.
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notably there's no backtracking, video games can still be too high friction as there's often punishment for bad moves. eg he keeps falling in the moat while bopping around outside the castle in mario 64.
puzzles have low-stakes friction of trying and failing, which makes them a decent surface area for practicing willpower. frustrated persistence is what leads to knowing you can do hard things.
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i see now that in puzzles you start with willpower highest, every move you make reduces your willpower but also reduces complexity. you spend effort to buy bits, and the price of bits falls over time.
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RT @gonzalo__nunez: @melissa yeah i hate these. this was a huge point of contention at airbnb back in the day, the native share sheet is ob….
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i bet this works, but i hate it. i don't believe apps should be able to come between user and core os features of the device. i do not want to be taxed an extra tap every time i screenshot
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@jacksondahl @DialecticPod we remain slow tv maxis.
my intention was to find a way to condition him that nothing on screens is particularly interesting or engaging. i spent time thinking how to do this and remembered reading about public access channels in norway. i decided to run an experiment with slow tv.
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i categorize old enough as slow tv, and as near optimal propaganda for persistence
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the purpose of a system is what it does. people warned me the beneficiaries of schools aren't meant to be the students. i didn't appreciate it's not a secret
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i identify as someone with more technically oriented knowledge and material accumulation than command of western humanism
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> reading is important, nay, imperative.> reading is dehumanizing, and only the territory of antisocial male hackers
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it seems implausible that anyone thought internet installation was high tech, even in 2008, even in scare quotes
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the revolutionist's handbook tells us that he who can, does, and he who cannot, teaches
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when you've competed, you do not feel the same guilt about status or wealth you've accumulated. you feel like you've earned it. i don't know what it means to earn pessimism
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there are people who feel guilt for having it so good when they see other people, whose abilities exceed theirs, have it worse. they think this speaks of great injustice
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i'm reading this paper with anecdotes that read like, oh i have it so easy compared to these lower class people with superior abilities, i've been the recipient of such privilege. yes, you have. you have ascended without competition
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