passive_fist comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 15 June 2015 07:19:01PM *  9 points [-]

I asked my son Alex to post this because I'm proud of his writing skill, but also to show a challenge of raising a child without religion. He is far from obsessed with death, and told me he is thinking of death less than 1% of the time. Still, it would be comforting to be able to honestly tell him that he has nothing to fear from death, although knowing Alex he would use this as a counterargument when I tell him to be safe by, for example, buckling his seat-belt or looking both ways when crossing the street.

Comment author: passive_fist 17 June 2015 10:18:05PM 3 points [-]

You should definitely write about your experiences raising a child as a rationalist. I am not kidding; this would be immensely beneficial to a large number of people.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 17 June 2015 10:27:13PM 1 point [-]

Gwern might disagree. According to studies parents have little effect on their children's deveopment. But I disagree with that. I'd guess that James' parenting is his genes way of ensuring Alex' develops as well as James'. And I'd be very interested to compare mehods.