Matt Teichman
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
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I mean, I don't really know.
This is just me talking through my hat.
But anecdotally, it seems like the biggest transformation that I've witnessed happening in people is when they take their first couple of philosophy classes.
And suddenly now they're like, well, a little bit, you know, they get a little more careful about making hasty generalizations.
And they're thinking about like, well, OK, anytime I say anything, what's a possible counterexample?
And, you know, can make sure all my eyes are dotted and my T's are crossed when it comes to making a case for something.
Yeah, in my experience, people get those kinds of payoffs from the first few philosophy classes.
And then after that, it tends to be more just getting further and further
Yeah.
And this kind of gets back to my initial question about like, is there anything where the returns are unlearning and are always negative?
It just keeps getting worse.
I'm inclined to think there must be some such things, but I don't know.
Maybe it's always good to learn.
And the difference is just a matter of like the rate at which the good things happen when you start learning something.
Why do I have to do my homework?
Well, it's no burden.
Do you think some things are easier to learn and other things are harder to learn?
How should we think about that issue?
So I've definitely experienced this teaching philosophy and linguistics versus teaching computer science.
In computer science, there's just like the sheer volume of fiddly little details that it's easy to mess up and get wrong is quite striking compared to in philosophy and linguistics where you are basically trying to get the high-level stuff right, but you don't have to fuss over tons and tons of little arcane details of like how does this computer system work and what is the exact arithmetic property of this versus that and et cetera, et cetera.
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