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Apprenticeship Online — LessWrong

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It is 6:37 in the morning as I’m sitting down to write this, late in August, and I and the three-year-old are down in the old stable we use as study. As I look over my notes, she observes me. Mist is leaking through a crack in the window. Then she gets up, finds a pocket calculator, rummages around with the notes on the table a bit, and starts typing. “The unicorn ate the human beings”, she says aloud. “Like wheat.” Human beings cannot help picking up skills if they live immersed in communities where the skills are practiced. If that statement is correct, or at least a good first approximation of the truth, as I believe it to be, the aim of education is to make sure as many people as possible can immerse themselves in skillful communities. We should, as far as possible, extract learners out of schools – where the incompetent live surrounded by, and therefore imitate, others at the same level of incompetence – and into productive environments. Historically, this approach to learning has

x Apprenticeship Online — LessWrong Education Scholarship & Learning Apprenticeship World Modeling World Optimization Frontpage 54 Apprenticeship Online by Henrik Karlsson 9th Oct 2021 Linkpost for escapingflatland.substack.com 14 min read 20 54 If humans stopped imitating, civilization would vanish. It is 6:37 in the morning as I’m sitting down to write this, late in August, and I and the three-year-old are down in the old stable we use as study. As I look over my notes, she observes me. Mist is leaking through a crack in the window. Then she gets up, finds a pocket calculator, rummages aroun

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