A couple years ago I curated “Growing Independence” as an interesting look into how children grow in agency, That post was about Jeff teaching his ~5 year olds to start making independent decisions. Some of my reasons then:
I think there is actually something fairly important about the topic of raising kids, which is relevant to more common LessWrong themes. First, there is a sense in which raising a family is one of the core things humanity is about. 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.
There is also a sense in which this post is about “how to raise an agent”, which I think ties pretty directly into core LW themes. I felt like reading the article fit into my overall worldview that includes robust agents and rationality and learning to think independently
This post is focused on very young children, which highlights a somewhat different set of ways children learn. But, I appreciate the throughline that I see drawn from this post, through Jeff’s post, to the various LessWrong posts about how to be a grown up agent who goes out into the world, figures out what they want, and figures out how to achieve it.
Curated.
A couple years ago I curated “Growing Independence” as an interesting look into how children grow in agency, That post was about Jeff teaching his ~5 year olds to start making independent decisions. Some of my reasons then:
This post is focused on very young children, which highlights a somewhat different set of ways children learn. But, I appreciate the throughline that I see drawn from this post, through Jeff’s post, to the various LessWrong posts about how to be a grown up agent who goes out into the world, figures out what they want, and figures out how to achieve it.