Going to school is a recent invention
Schools have existed for millennia, at first for children of rich parents, then expanded to everyone in the last few centuries.
Analogy between school and prison is excellent for this is exactly how many if not most children feel.
Children also feel that having to do chores is totalitarian, and getting only 1 hour of xbox per day is super totalitarian.
Well, school isn’t prison, anymore than time is money or property is theft etc.
If the complaint is that kids have to go to school, hey, kids live pretty controlled lives. For example, did I have the power to move to a different apartment? No, it was up to my parents. Does that mean my parents’ apartment was a prison for me? Uhhh...
It’s better to focus on real problems, like the fact that school often feels boring and pointless. That’s what specialized schools try to solve, and often succeed.
Maybe part of the solution is having more specialized schools. In Russia we have math schools, biology schools, sport schools and so on. Basically some subjects would get strong focus and the rest would be quietly neglected. The kids love it, I’ve heard from many friends how they felt disengaged in regular school, then moved to a specialized one and everything clicked. Maybe the system could be pushed further, by having schools focused on manual trades, commerce, etc.
Yeah. Hunter-gatherer beliefs maybe not so much, but I do have more respect for Greek and Roman polytheism (which led to achievements like a 50km long aqueduct, going under hills and over valleys, that descends at exactly 25cm per km) than for the successor religion that destroyed the aqueducts, burned the libraries, and introduced religious wars to the world. Then it took over a thousand years to mold Christianity into something compatible with human achievement, and just as it became more or less ok, the kids are replacing it with something worse again. This narrative is exaggerated, but I do tentatively believe something like it, and would be interested to hear arguments against.
Censorship can only be done by the powerful, who often lie at the same time. So I don’t think it’s wise to think of it as an antidote to lying.
To me, slightly raising or lowering the hi-hat is an essential dimension of playing, and double strokes / buzz strokes / rolls are important too, so drumming with only feet seems very limited. And why anyway? It’s not so hard to find other people to play with. What I really want is for someone to figure out a hi-hat you can play standing up.
I think endurance can sometimes be to your detriment, if people with power and authority try to manipulate you into enduring something that benefits them, when they don’t have to endure much at all. I’ve often wished to have a little less endurance, more anger, and a stronger sense of self.
For some reason “writing to think” never worked well for me. I can only figure out stuff with nonverbal thinking and imagination, then try to put it in words.
A nice short story about loyalty is Friends in San Rosario by O. Henry.
You could go further and say that when firms are too small, the level of trust is inefficiently low (“fly-by-night”), and when firms are too big, the level of trust is inefficiently high (“managerial feudalism”).
The binary is true though: either you bid up the price of a good by subsidizing purchases, or you bid it down by collective bargaining (or you do both and they cancel each other out to some extent). Vouchers, along with measures like college loans, seem to be on the first horn of the dilemma; OP is more interested in the other horn.
Yeah, markets aren’t very nice when they have mostly one-shot, fly-by-night interactions. You could fix that with punishments, but a less wasteful alternative is reputation. Sellers of used cars can join into bigger companies that are incentivized to uphold their reputation and provide warranties; workers in critical jobs can bring references from previous jobs where they proved their quality; owners of vacation homes can benefit when Airbnb lets future renters see the reviews written by past renters.
Is there some number that reflects the decline in cooperation you’re seeing?
I think the focus on ultimate values comes from the Christian mindset. It’s worth contrasting with the Greek mindset, where piety is more about actions that show respect to your gods, rulers, or parents, with an expectation of good treatment in return.
The thermostat pattern is everywhere, from biology to econ to climate etc. I learned about it years ago from this article and it affected me a lot.
True. I’ve been doing this with the 4XCamera app on iPad, it’s clunky and doesn’t have live collaboration, but for take by take recording it’s ok. I heard Acapella was better, but the subscription model turned me off.
For most real-world phenomena, the graphs aren’t that regular nor repeating, so there are more hints about direction and lag.
Yeah, though I think “at fourth glance” stands as it is: in the long run any bounded function will have zero correlation with its derivative.
#3 is a communication failure—we forgot to say “compared to what” when we say “increases” risk of death.
Compared to the control group. People often measure the effect of variable X on variable Y by randomly dividing a population into experiment and control groups, intervening on X in the experiment group, and measuring the difference in Y between groups. Well, I tried to show an example where intervening on X in either direction will increase Y.
Yeah. Thanks for the front door link, I’ll take some time learning this!
Maybe to reformulate a bit, in the second sub-scenario my idea was that each person has a kind of “tar thermostat”, which sets the desired level of tar and continually adjusts your desire to smoke. If some other factor makes you smoke more or less, it will compensate until your level of tar again matches the “thermostat setting”. And the trait that determines someone’s “thermostat setting” would also determine their cancer risk. Basically the system would counteract any external noise, making the statistician’s job harder (though not impossible, you’re right).
The third scenario, about skydiving, hints at a similar idea. The “thermostat” there is the person’s desire for thrill, so if you take away skydiving, it will try to find something else.
Nice! My friend group was looking for just this kind of thing a few weeks ago, ideally with video as well, and saving a multiscreen recording at the end.
I don’t think freedom is the main factor here, because kids aren’t fully developed. They start out with many desires that are bad for themselves and others: to eat lots of sweets, to watch lots of youtube, to torment each other. At some point growing up, kids learn self-control and start making decisions that actually make them better off. But until that point, parents are responsible for what’s good for the kid, and giving kids freedom to make themselves worse off is a bad idea.