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I don’t think the models from those time periods work today.

• swayvil 4y ago
  Home schooling, hanging with brilliant people, free to pursue your own goals. That's the models, right?
  • Scubabear68 4y ago
    Not what I meant. Back then you were either rich and had these golden opportunities, or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed. With the Internet and modern connectedness, things are very different.
    • barry-cotter 4y ago
      > or you were like 99.999999% of humanity and had no chance at exceptionalism they would be noticed. I see where you’re coming from but those numbers are way off. Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt weren’t the children of peasants but neither were they nobles. They were relatively privileged but well over 1% of the population were as well off. Notary’s or miller’s son in a pre industrial society is bourgeois not one in less than a million.
  • OJFord 4y ago
    I think GP means in a quasi-statistical/ML sense: if you build your model for an upbringing for success on data of yesteryear, it doesn't necessarily work (give good predictions for) today.
    • seymourhersh 4y ago
      Isn’t this a meaningless truism that can be applied to any model you haven’t proven works?