Re: Boy Genius or Craft Idiot?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 15:36:24 MDT

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    On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:35:14PM -0400, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
    >
    > "Greg dreams of mining asteroids, curing cancer, eradicating hunger and
    > becoming president."
    >
    > Ah, I remember those days. I had almost exactly the same dreams as a kid,
    > before I got ambitious.

    Yes, that is the wonder of growing up. One becomes both more ambitious
    and realistic. The trick is to keep growing up forever (which I guess is
    at the core of both our research interests).

    As for Greg, he seems to be a smart kid but usually kid geniuses don't
    pan out (there are a few exceptions like Thomas Young). The real trick
    to being a prodigy seems to create one's own learning environment and
    motivation provided by parents and institutions will eventually fail.

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