School is fake
- I mean, just look at it.
- But for more, read Unlearning Shoddy Thinking
- or see Endeavors Grid
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March 18th, 2022
- School is fake / list of common schemas learned in school (summarizing John Gatto)
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - cooperation & defection aren't as obvious as they might seem (they depend on frame) IFS collective agency untangle self-authoring social technology is more of a bottleneck than material technology intentionality everyone is always doing whatever makes the most sense to them partswork Coherence Therapy everything makes sense Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings self-trust comes from respecting distrust Learning how to trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too safety psychological safety Alfie Kohn punishment is goodharting waiting to happen protectiveness is damage control deliberate "negative reinforcement" is punishment even if you don't call it that intrinsic motivation adulthood An Everyone Culture in general, people don't not-care. they care about many things and don't know how to care for all of them together (PCT) reward is just the temporary relief of punishment scarcity much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly what is culture? how do we make groups with the union of their individual wisdoms rather than the intersection of their individual wisdoms? list of common schemas learned in school School is fake averagerianism post-average
- 45:49 - 55:04 - How do we inherit goals? How do we differentiate between our own goals and goals set for us? How can we do this in a useful and effective way? how to think about goals Everything is a Remix individuation list of common schemas learned in school School is fake averagerianism post-average
July 7th, 2021
- > Thing learned at school that I’m still unlearning:
- 1. You only have one chance to do anything, and if you fail you’re either stupid or lazy
- 2. Asking questions gets you in trouble
- 3. There’s only one correct way to do things, and it’s up to authority to decide which way it is
- 4. Your work is only worth as much as the local authority decides it is worth
- 5. You are only supposed to work on things that are assigned to you
- 6. You need explicit permission each time you want to do anything that wasn’t specifically assigned to you, including taking a pee
- 7. Cooperating with other people is cheating
- 8. Your work doesn’t have to serve any purpose other than measuring how much you’re worth, it will likely be discarded right away
- 9. You must be smart but not too smart, doing things ahead of the schedule gets you in trouble
- 10. Knowledge comes from lectures and books rather than experimentation
- 11. Education has to be serious, if you’re having too much fun you’re going to get grounded
- 12. Moving your body is forbidden, except for 2h/week when you will be measured on your ability to play ball games
- there can be only one top performer, and it matters who.
- You show your work to others/for evaluation only when it's done.
- it's important to be a "critical thinker", but only about things you've been told to be critical of
- If you re-use something you've done before, that's cheating