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My parents always used to downplay the value of intelligence. And play up the value of—effort, as recommended by the latest research? No, not effor…

x My Childhood Death Spiral — LessWrong Yudkowsky's Coming of Age Affective Death Spiral Growth Stories Rationality Personal Blog 83 My Childhood Death Spiral by Eliezer Yudkowsky 15th Sep 2008 5 min read 106 83 My parents always used to downplay the value of intelligence. And play up the value of—effort, as recommended by the latest research? No, not effort. Experience. A nicely unattainable hammer with which to smack down a bright young child, to be sure. That was what my parents told me when I questioned the Jewish religion, for example. I tried laying out an argument, and I was told someth

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