I think there is actually something fairly important about the topic of raising kids, which is relevant to more common LessWrong themes. [...]Many LW folk don’t seem to have kids, and part of me is worried that all our philosophy and strategy is sort of missing something important if we don’t have a background sense of “what raising kids is like” subtly informing our judgments.
+1 to this specifically. Taking an unformed brain and guiding it along a path to become stronger seems like the equivalent of a lab class in rationality.
+1 to this specifically. Taking an unformed brain and guiding it along a path to become stronger seems like the equivalent of a lab class in rationality.