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Intellectual apprenticeship: probably the only way to learn to think.
A personal account by @vgr ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/rem…
A personal account by @vgr ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/rem…
As @ESYudkowsky notes, universities mostly don’t teach you to think. That’s a disaster…
But it’s difficult: intellectual apprenticeship doesn’t scale. If you are lucky, you *can* learn to think at university—if you find the right teachers—but it’s rare.
But it’s difficult: intellectual apprenticeship doesn’t scale. If you are lucky, you *can* learn to think at university—if you find the right teachers—but it’s rare.
What you learn from a great teacher is a *style* of thinking. @vgr describes his mentor’s mode as “romantic engineering”:
ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/rem…
ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/10/rem…
I’ve been lucky to have had several great teachers—some now famous, others still obscure. I’m constantly tempted to write about what I learned from them, about how to think and feel and be, and how that depended on some dynamic of the relationship. Time is too short…
