hyporational comments on Brainstorming: children's stories - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Emile 11 February 2014 01:23PM

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Comment author: hyporational 11 February 2014 06:23:08PM 1 point [-]

At this point, it might be more beneficial to teach values than anything abstract. For example, a lot of people here are crippled by akrasia. You could hedge against that by telling your kid stories where hard work pays off. That might make teaching other things later a lot easier. Too many stories have a protagonist who did nothing to become awesome.