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one downside of formal education is it tends to teach you there are answers to things. before I was properly educated I relied more on gut and whatever made sense from my own life experience. that’s all I had and needed. after university I became skeptical of my experience and a believer in reproducible science which is often contradicting to n=1 personal experience. result is more uncertainty: “is this the correct choice? Do I know enough to choose this? what unknown unknowns are there?”.
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this is precisely my biggest feud with the schooling system here i was quite good at math throughout my studies and thought how great for me... only too late have i realized i was good at it precisely because i was always certain there's a correct solution, it's reachable (because it was designed that way) and my only job was to find it. so i did (mostly) real life, though, consists of problems you don't even know about. if you do, the solution space is not known. if it is, you have no idea if it's within your skillset. and if it is and you know it, solving it is not even rewarding... so, exactly as you write, you have to fall back to intuition—granted, solving "easy" school problems helps you sharpen it, but the general consensus i see is "educated people are smarter, intuition is not scientific" and it pisses me off so much.
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well said. “you can just do things” midwit meme “what did u get done this week?” all reactions in part to this, I think
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education today feels sort of dehumanizing. i remember thinking how superior i was, even in comparison to my parents (🙄, idiot me) i know many people have a distaste for him, but reading taleb brought me back to reality and helped me to think beyond what i was taught. i regained respect towards all sorts of people, and be wary of what he calls "iyi - intellectuals yet idiots"
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