Dagon comments on Don't teach people how to reach the top of a hill - LessWrong

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Comment author: Dagon 05 March 2014 09:00:57AM 5 points [-]

This is important. Understanding the different motivations for learning (and for action generally) is an important part of figuring out a strategy for teaching (and advising actions generally). Someone who wants to maximize a certain effect (efficiency and perfection of cut in bookmaking (or swordfighting)) is going to be very different from someone looking for a different success metric (paycheck and not getting yelled at).