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First we shape our social graph, then it shapes us (2022)
Author : Curiositry
Score : 47 points
Date : 2024-06-23 17:24 UTC (1 days ago)
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| mediumsmart wrote:
| _the great merit of society is to make one appreciate solitude_
| nico wrote:
| > Most who grew up to become geniuses, pre-1900, were kept apart
| from same age peers and raised at home, by tutors or parents
|
| Pretty much all kids are a lot smarter than we acknowledge
|
| Lazlo Polgar believed geniuses are made, not born, and raised his
| daughters to become chess grandmasters
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
|
| The school system is more of an industrial childcare operation
| for working parents, than an actual education system for the kids
|
| It's also easy to criticize, and it is very hard for parents to
| provide good resources and enough attention for the kids to fully
| develop their potential
| leetrout wrote:
| > The school system is more of an industrial childcare
| operation for working parents, than an actual education system
| for the kids
|
| Bingo. And, as the spouse of a teacher, there's not a lot of
| hope of that changing any time soon. The pay would have to
| change... the people currently working would have to be
| dismissed or, for those introspective and motivated,
| retrained... never going to happen.
|
| And generally focused on creating followers not thinkers. I
| really enjoyed "The Coddling of the American Mind"
|
| https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-cod...
|
| https://www.thecoddling.com/
| hobs wrote:
| Yeah, it was clear they were training us for an industrial work
| ethic with 40 minute periods with bells moving us from place to
| place, regimented bathroom and recreational activity, and
| generally a complete disinterest in learning, just do the
| homework kid, we don't care and we wont call on you.
| PartiallyTyped wrote:
| My early childhood is very similar to that of some Field
| medalists.. and then I went to school and the problems began..
| between bullying, isolation, and a host of other issues, adult
| me feels the burden of "potential".
|
| I don't blame my parents for it, they really didn't have much
| of a choice in the matter as we were too poor for private
| schools and homeschooling isn't a thing where I come from.
| rustcleaner wrote:
| I was incessantly mobbed, physically and psychologically,
| throughout early school with no escape and all cries for rescue
| rendered impotent... and all I got was this lousy +4 z-score IQ!
|
| I didn't choose the genius life, the genius life chose me. *sob*
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Everyone wants to be a genius until it's time to do genius
| shit.
|
| > _I never sleep, I don 't know why. I had a roommate and I
| drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away
| in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had
| to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had
| anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever
| need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause
| I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep,
| okay?_ --JC
| Veuxdo wrote:
| > And after a handful of years of hanging about with people more
| skilled than themselves, our babies--these tiny, soft-skulled
| creatures--can out-compete chimpanzees in all but close combat.
|
| I don't even want to ask
| jon_richards wrote:
| Also not accurate. Chimps have extremely powerful numerical
| working memories. https://www.cell.com/current-
| biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(07)...
| JohnKemeny wrote:
| > The milieu around you--which shapes you, and which you shape in
| turn--we can model as a directed graph. The nodes are people and
| objects and ideas connected to each other. And the graph is
| directed because you have nodes that send you input and nodes you
| send output to.
|
| Then shows a figure of a weirdly symmetric undirected graph that
| looks nothing like a social or complex network!
| JohnKemeny wrote:
| Previous submission, no comments:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776434
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