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by tremendulo 9y ago
Not professionals. For example, we don't call a fast food server a professional, yet he is trained. Yes, a mother is constrained by having to look after her other children and the household, but it is an organic set of constraints whic
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by tremendulo 9y ago
The term 'professional' is misleading, since (1) There's no such thing as a professional parent. It's a relationship. (2) Professionals have expertise in some domain, e.g. heart surgery, but as the article shows, there&#
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>your circumstances Don't forget that those circumstances include the decision of whether or not to have children in the first place. >But please keep those opinions to yourself That's silly. This is a discussion which y
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Nah, everybody used to think slavery was OK. Yet it wasn't. Plenty of people know they shouldn't smoke. Yet they do. Evolution is 'red in tooth and claw'. Let me re-formulate my explanation of why daycare is bad: (1) Sma
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Btw, "fundamentally wrong" is a misquote.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I'm not arguing that one-size-fits-all; there are many legitimate parenting styles. The books argue about these, and the article is right, we shouldn't worry. But daycare just isn't one of them, as I've explained. It&#x2
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>“day care is morally wrong” as itself axiomatic Good people already know that daycare is bad, even those who use it, even though they can't explain. So yeah, it's axiomatic. >however, the second is not in the general s
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>puts the perfect in the way of the good No, that's what I'm arguing against. Parenting manuals are arguing minutiae while children are increasingly being brought up by strangers who don't love them. Of course there are
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by tremendulo 9y ago
'Uncontroversial statement' if they prefer. I'd be happy to nitpick with them provided they aren't murdering people or sending their babies to preschool. https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11271
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Empirical evidence can't decide on moral issues. To complicate matters further most moral stuff can't be explained very well. For example, 'murder is wrong' is an uncontroversial moral fact which is both unfalsifiable a
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>we're all pursuing perfection via different techniques Yes, while often getting fundamentals wrong, e.g. there are millions of two year olds in day care .
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by tremendulo 9y ago
If you read with your kids and don't get divorced then you've already done a great job I think.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>It's impossible for any scientific study to address all possible outcomes and the relationships between them Yes and even if there somehow were credible, reproducible studies that addressed all aspects of parenting and all childh
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Violation of privacy?
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Credentials and prizes are heading the way of the dodo because we're slowly realising that while neither knowledge nor significance can be measured our opinions can be swayed by prestige and politics.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>We know how human beings are supposed to live to be happy: small communities of stable relationships, with a lot of face to face time, ideally spending some of it outside doing some sort of physical activity. That's how we used
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Yes it is possible to have your cake and eat it! Provided of course that you don't dine out too unhealthily and die before retirement age.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
One problem that all cultures face is that of pecking order. Respecting the pecking order as animals gave us a lesser chance of death by violence within the species. But we've inherited the desire to rise up the status hierarchy and on
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I'd rather live with the Amish or with John Plant than potentially be arrested by my own house or car. The house would merely lock me in but the car would no doubt drive me to the police station also. I'd also rather get up to swi
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Small reward now or larger reward later? In real life we might think: why can't I just have both ? Yet it frequently is a matter of 'either or' since the smaller reward robs me of the mental resources required to create
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>I would expect significant causal relationships between practicing the creation of music and ability in the creation of music, and between practicing audio discrimination and ability in audio discrimination. Yes, and real musicianship
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>James’s stance is clearly stated: “My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.” Assuming that free will does exist then if James hadn't believed in free will then by this act would he have made his own will un
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Yes. I don't think one can escape from the fact that punishment and reward go hand-in-hand. By the contrast principle, absence of reward is logically equivalent to punishment. Even without explicit rewards and punishments, children w
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by tremendulo 9y ago
People implicitly praise and blame by their emotional responses. A negative response from a person you admire or seek to emulate is felt negatively whether it was intended as blame or not. Reward and punishment are an amplification of a g
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I bet those who believe that anger is always and everywhere wrong are the ones who lose their temper. (They may go silent and direct the anger inwardly.) Those who use the anger will employ measured criticism and intensify their efforts.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I suspect what truly works is (a) the instructor knows something that you don't know, (b) you want to learn it, (c) you establish communication. Praise and blame are an inherent part of that communication. In certain circumstances, esp
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Why doesn't wood that paves streets biodegrade?
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Totally agree that executives and so on are hyper-vigilant about status. However it's possible to be aware of status without aiming to increase it. Those whom I had in mind are religious leaders like Jesus or the Buddha. They apparentl
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True, but those are bad things to want: Status -- those to whom we accord the highest status seem to be people who genuinely don't care about status; Money -- companies which aim only for profit become incapable of change. Presumab
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One important way that all tests are removed from reality is that the direct motivation for solving the test problem is to score well on the test rather than to understand the problem better. In real life we are sometimes motivated by facto

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