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Lumifer comments on Skills and Antiskills - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: katydee 26 April 2014 06:54AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 27 April 2014 02:10:48AM 8 points [-]

why I've steadfastly avoided learning how to cook or clean

Cooking is high-status nowadays. If you can do it reasonably well and with flair :-)

Feeding people is also an excellent way of making them like you.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 27 April 2014 10:50:42AM 2 points [-]

It is also a way to teach children lots and lots of kitchen physics and chemistry, engineering processes, by adding context and understanding to such mundane tasks as keeping a pot from boiling over (observe convection. bubble formation, heat regulation, vapor and its properties, condensation...).

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