Some time ago I was surprised that narrow professional skills can significantly change your thinking, and not just give you new abilities to specialize. Changes you, not just allowing you to cast a new spell. Something like not scientific, but professional rationality, but definitely not just the ability to make origami. (Specifically, I had this with the principles of good code, including in object-oriented programming) I had never heard of this before, including here on LessWrong. But it makes me think that the virtue of learning is more than being able to look at cryonics without prejudice. It seems that the virtue of learning itself can change your thinking (in a positive way?). The ability to see where reality is tightly woven? Perhaps I should have noticed earlier that, for example, characters who specialize in politics (Malfoy), tropes (Hiro) and other things look clearly cooler than if they had no specialization and were simple townsfolk. It seems that even narrow skills, and not a special leveling of wisdom, give you experience points. Although perhaps the point was that I did not think that this is really applicable in real life. And I’m still not sure if it really improves you, and not just creates a fake aura of coolness.
Some time ago I was surprised that narrow professional skills can significantly change your thinking, and not just give you new abilities to specialize. Changes you, not just allowing you to cast a new spell. Something like not scientific, but professional rationality, but definitely not just the ability to make origami. (Specifically, I had this with the principles of good code, including in object-oriented programming) I had never heard of this before, including here on LessWrong. But it makes me think that the virtue of learning is more than being able to look at cryonics without prejudice. It seems that the virtue of learning itself can change your thinking (in a positive way?). The ability to see where reality is tightly woven? Perhaps I should have noticed earlier that, for example, characters who specialize in politics (Malfoy), tropes (Hiro) and other things look clearly cooler than if they had no specialization and were simple townsfolk. It seems that even narrow skills, and not a special leveling of wisdom, give you experience points. Although perhaps the point was that I did not think that this is really applicable in real life. And I’m still not sure if it really improves you, and not just creates a fake aura of coolness.