Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. If you want to learn writing, read great writers, etc.
If you want to master something, you should do things that causally/counter factually increase your ability (in the order of most to least cost-effective). You should adopt interventions that actually make you better compared to the case that you haven’t done them.
Any intervention could have different treatment effects on some people versus others. In other words, maybe spending a lot of time around other adults worked for those children, but it might not work for your child. Just like how penicillin helps in people who don’t have an allergic reaction to them.
With that out of the way though, I thought this is a super cool post and is one of those lesswrong posts that I remember after reading it once. I think a huge part of the value is just opening up the space of possibilities we can imagine for children.
In other words, I think the post detailed a set of interventions that potentially have a positive treatment effect and seem worthy to try. Absent this post, I might not have came up with these interventions myself (or, more likely, I would have to go through the trouble of doing the research the author did). Thanks for sharing these stories!
So I think the first claim here is wrong.
If you want to master something, you should do things that causally/counter factually increase your ability (in the order of most to least cost-effective). You should adopt interventions that actually make you better compared to the case that you haven’t done them.
Any intervention could have different treatment effects on some people versus others. In other words, maybe spending a lot of time around other adults worked for those children, but it might not work for your child. Just like how penicillin helps in people who don’t have an allergic reaction to them.
With that out of the way though, I thought this is a super cool post and is one of those lesswrong posts that I remember after reading it once. I think a huge part of the value is just opening up the space of possibilities we can imagine for children.
In other words, I think the post detailed a set of interventions that potentially have a positive treatment effect and seem worthy to try. Absent this post, I might not have came up with these interventions myself (or, more likely, I would have to go through the trouble of doing the research the author did). Thanks for sharing these stories!