I’m considering this. I’m accumulating an Anki-Deck of ‘essential real-life insights’. But I’m not sure about the right way to ‘teach’ this. These concepts are so much condensed and they can’t be taught easily. The inferential gap is too large. Currently it is more a reminder for me to build up toward that and to use ideas from that in everyday interaction. Explaining things I do with (strictly unneccessarily) precise terminology that will be needed later. I considered a book. But more an orbis pictus kind with multiple layers of meaning. But that is just too hard to do in parallel.
Sure. However the goal is not merely to help, although that is a big part of it. The goal would be to leave something better behind than photos. Something as close to a “mind upload” or “mind simulation” as possible. To enable my child to have something like a discussion with me after I am gone.
For example, one of my most “radical feeling” and unusual feeling ideas is that learning some martial arts is essential to developing masculine qualities, and developing some qualities is essential to well-being as a straight man at least, because fighting is one of the basic animal experiences like feeding, sex, or social life and should not be missed out. I mean, it is essential for probably everybody, but for a straight man it is even tied to sexual selection, so doubly so… My dad was kind of telling me similar things when I was 15 but I brushed them off I said “I am an intellectual, I live in my mind, I have no need for this body-oriented animalistic things, don’t try to turn me into some baboon”. Then I figured it around 35. So it would be pretty cool now to have this quasi-conversation with him, a chapter in a book, describing how he figured this out and what the experiences were like. It would be simply better than just having photos, a mind dump, a mind download onto paper. I don’ thave Anki cards in mind, rather the opposite, a biographical narrative that tells how was what figured out through what life experiences.
And even doubling as a historical account. Have you read The World Of Yesterday from Stefan Zweig? Too bad he died childless, as it is awesome to read such perceptive subjective histories even if you care not for the person who wrote it, imagine how cool it would be if you really were close to the author!
I’m considering this. I’m accumulating an Anki-Deck of ‘essential real-life insights’. But I’m not sure about the right way to ‘teach’ this. These concepts are so much condensed and they can’t be taught easily. The inferential gap is too large. Currently it is more a reminder for me to build up toward that and to use ideas from that in everyday interaction. Explaining things I do with (strictly unneccessarily) precise terminology that will be needed later. I considered a book. But more an orbis pictus kind with multiple layers of meaning. But that is just too hard to do in parallel.
Sure. However the goal is not merely to help, although that is a big part of it. The goal would be to leave something better behind than photos. Something as close to a “mind upload” or “mind simulation” as possible. To enable my child to have something like a discussion with me after I am gone.
For example, one of my most “radical feeling” and unusual feeling ideas is that learning some martial arts is essential to developing masculine qualities, and developing some qualities is essential to well-being as a straight man at least, because fighting is one of the basic animal experiences like feeding, sex, or social life and should not be missed out. I mean, it is essential for probably everybody, but for a straight man it is even tied to sexual selection, so doubly so… My dad was kind of telling me similar things when I was 15 but I brushed them off I said “I am an intellectual, I live in my mind, I have no need for this body-oriented animalistic things, don’t try to turn me into some baboon”. Then I figured it around 35. So it would be pretty cool now to have this quasi-conversation with him, a chapter in a book, describing how he figured this out and what the experiences were like. It would be simply better than just having photos, a mind dump, a mind download onto paper. I don’ thave Anki cards in mind, rather the opposite, a biographical narrative that tells how was what figured out through what life experiences.
And even doubling as a historical account. Have you read The World Of Yesterday from Stefan Zweig? Too bad he died childless, as it is awesome to read such perceptive subjective histories even if you care not for the person who wrote it, imagine how cool it would be if you really were close to the author!
But then he did tell/teach you. And all the context and real life experience was necessary. It wouldn’t help to just read it.
Sure but at 35 I could now read it and see his bio how he interpreted it and how he figured it out and how used it.