Nit: the “leave a comment” button goes to a different article. Copy-paste error?
This seems like a good recap. It seems like you recap a lot? The recaps get better with practice and I suppose they’re necessary when blogging.
I think it’s a bit unfair to educators to claim that they don’t talk about motivation for Problems. Often they do! There is a whole genre of “story problems” that, while artificial (like most of education), at least lean in the direction of showing how math can be useful in practice. It doesn’t always work, though, and how successful they are at reaching students seems like a skill issue. Maybe it would be better to talk about common mistakes without assuming that anyone in particular has fallen for them?
I’ve long had a suspicion that Meta-Rationality is pretty close to being Reasonable behavior applied at the meta-level to decide on Purposes for rational activity. Not yet convinced that it’s different.
> Nit: the “leave a comment” button goes to a different article. Copy-paste error?
Whoops! Yes, thank you! Substack's copy-paste behavior is extremely odd in multiple ways; this is one I was not aware of, and it explains why comments have often gotten attached to wrong posts previously as well.
Nit: the “leave a comment” button goes to a different article. Copy-paste error?
This seems like a good recap. It seems like you recap a lot? The recaps get better with practice and I suppose they’re necessary when blogging.
I think it’s a bit unfair to educators to claim that they don’t talk about motivation for Problems. Often they do! There is a whole genre of “story problems” that, while artificial (like most of education), at least lean in the direction of showing how math can be useful in practice. It doesn’t always work, though, and how successful they are at reaching students seems like a skill issue. Maybe it would be better to talk about common mistakes without assuming that anyone in particular has fallen for them?
I’ve long had a suspicion that Meta-Rationality is pretty close to being Reasonable behavior applied at the meta-level to decide on Purposes for rational activity. Not yet convinced that it’s different.
> Nit: the “leave a comment” button goes to a different article. Copy-paste error?
Whoops! Yes, thank you! Substack's copy-paste behavior is extremely odd in multiple ways; this is one I was not aware of, and it explains why comments have often gotten attached to wrong posts previously as well.