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With little kids I am increasingly conscious about how to best equip them for the world when they are adults. I think previous playbook will need to be redrafte

With little kids I am increasingly conscious about how to best equip them for the world when they are adults. I think previous playbook will need to be redrafted. 'Resilience' and 'Critical Thinking' are two things I am thinking are key any others?

cidergal 4y ago
Charm. Online dating is so rampant, people who have experience charming in person will have their pick.
Yoric 4y ago
Definitely. They will also need to be exposed to ChatGPT to build intellectual antibodies.
oytis 4y ago
The key is being rich before AGI hits. I cannot imagine any social mobility after that. And philosophy maybe to find a meaning for their lives in the world where achievements don't exist any more. And don't push them too hard to learn skills that will become obsolete anyway - having a relaxed mind is more important
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eggsmediumrare 4y ago
I'm teaching mine gardening and jiu-jitsu.
Xenoamorphous 4y ago
Hard to say. I, like many others here, am a software developer. My girlfriend of many years (have a daughter together) is a graphic designer. I never thought creative work like the one she does was going to be the first hit by AI, I actually thought it’d be the last, yet here we are. Her boss is nonchalantly talking about StableDiffusion, Modjourney and whatnot. Meanwhile my cousing who wasn’t good at studying became a (good) hairdresser and his prospects look better than ours now.
Der_Einzige 4y ago
It's often said that critical thinking is the cornerstone of a well-rounded education. Universities and colleges around the world extol the virtues of critical thinking and its ability to elevate our intellectual prowess. However, I'd like to argue that critical thinking, or more specifically, the way it's often employed in certain academic contexts, has become overrated and counterproductive to meaningful, constructive discourse. In American college policy debates, a common phenomenon has emerged where "kritiks" (critiques) and "critical theorists" wield their tools of analysis in a manner that stifles the flow of ideas and inhibits the development of practical, solutions-oriented discussions. For those unfamiliar with policy debate, it is a competitive speaking activity where teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically proposes a policy change. Kritiks are arguments that challenge the assumptions, methodology, or discourse used by the opposing team. While they can serve a valuable purpose in exposing biases, promoting introspection, and advocating for marginalized perspectives, they have also evolved into a means of derailing debates by focusing on abstract philosophical points rather than addressing the policy issue at hand. Critical theorists, heavily influenced by postmodernist and marxist philosophy, have taken what was originally a quirk of Policy Debate and brought it to the mainstream. This has ended up with serial policy failure among the left wing, and has decimated our social science academic community. "Critical Thinking" is overrated. We need constructive thinking, like what you get in engineering school.
- monkeydust 4y ago
  Interesting viewpoint, thanks.

cidergal 4y ago

Charm. Online dating is so rampant, people who have experience charming in person will have their pick.

Yoric 4y ago

Definitely. They will also need to be exposed to ChatGPT to build intellectual antibodies.

oytis 4y ago

The key is being rich before AGI hits. I cannot imagine any social mobility after that. And philosophy maybe to find a meaning for their lives in the world where achievements don't exist any more. And don't push them too hard to learn skills that will become obsolete anyway - having a relaxed mind is more important

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eggsmediumrare 4y ago

I'm teaching mine gardening and jiu-jitsu.

Xenoamorphous 4y ago

Hard to say. I, like many others here, am a software developer. My girlfriend of many years (have a daughter together) is a graphic designer. I never thought creative work like the one she does was going to be the first hit by AI, I actually thought it’d be the last, yet here we are. Her boss is nonchalantly talking about StableDiffusion, Modjourney and whatnot. Meanwhile my cousing who wasn’t good at studying became a (good) hairdresser and his prospects look better than ours now.

Der_Einzige 4y ago

It's often said that critical thinking is the cornerstone of a well-rounded education. Universities and colleges around the world extol the virtues of critical thinking and its ability to elevate our intellectual prowess. However, I'd like to argue that critical thinking, or more specifically, the way it's often employed in certain academic contexts, has become overrated and counterproductive to meaningful, constructive discourse. In American college policy debates, a common phenomenon has emerged where "kritiks" (critiques) and "critical theorists" wield their tools of analysis in a manner that stifles the flow of ideas and inhibits the development of practical, solutions-oriented discussions. For those unfamiliar with policy debate, it is a competitive speaking activity where teams of two advocate for and against a resolution that typically proposes a policy change. Kritiks are arguments that challenge the assumptions, methodology, or discourse used by the opposing team. While they can serve a valuable purpose in exposing biases, promoting introspection, and advocating for marginalized perspectives, they have also evolved into a means of derailing debates by focusing on abstract philosophical points rather than addressing the policy issue at hand. Critical theorists, heavily influenced by postmodernist and marxist philosophy, have taken what was originally a quirk of Policy Debate and brought it to the mainstream. This has ended up with serial policy failure among the left wing, and has decimated our social science academic community. "Critical Thinking" is overrated. We need constructive thinking, like what you get in engineering school.

monkeydust 4y ago
Interesting viewpoint, thanks.