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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-09-26 17:47, spike wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I struggle to
find things to teach my own seven yr old son, since I want
him to learn relevant skills. All around me I see things
that can easily be automated, and once they are, there is
just no point in learning the theory behind the software,
any more than we really need to understand shock wave
mechanics of a tumbling aero-shroud or how to extract square
roots by hand (I STILL know how to do that fun but useless
skill.)</span></p>
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Hmm, thinking about Carl and Michael's paper, the skills to look for
are creative intelligence (both the fine arts and originality -
coming up with unusual ideas, creative or strategic ways of solving
problems) and social intelligence (social perceptiveness,
negotiation, persuasion, assisting others). <br>
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Math is both good training in manipulating formal abstract systems
and a generic tool for a lot of domains. I usually like to point at
statistics being extra useful for sharpening reasoning skills and
being able to deal with data. Similarly, knowing economics seems to
be generally useful. Philosophy might be a good tool-sharpener
(especially argumentation and logic, but never underestimate the
power of realizing you can think of things like thinking or
thinginess), plus learning to think about values can be pretty good
for choosing one's own path. Same thing for psychology.<br>
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Specific skills: learning to program, render graphics and make stuff
is useful - the languages and methods will change, but the
self-confidence and the awareness that the world can be changed to
suit ones preferences rather than the opposite, that is a good
knowledge.<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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