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I think I understand what the article is saying here. To be a bit reductive: "give kids some credit". I get it. In todays society children are seen as a financial burden redeemed only by the meaningful emotional and spiritual impact they might have on their caregivers. That is the value of a child. We, in the process of trying to protect children from exploitation, placed them in a glass box and after that quite rightly expected nothing from them. In doing so we inadvertently lost all faith in their capabilities. I actually believe if we gave kids and teenagers more agency they'd be a little bit more protected against predative behaviour. For the young teenage girl someone twice their age telling them "wow you're so mature for your age" might no longer be the clearing in the forest that they run to.

Whether its an LLM or AGI doesnt matter. We are actually dealing with belief. If people believe that a dumb computer parrot is in fact intelligent and capable of reasoning, they will use it as such. And that is the problem.

Uhm haha. On behalf of our community I would like to say that I was perfectly capable of understanding this mechanism thank you. Pretty sure the reason for the unintuitiveness for some people must rely on something else entirely.

Theres a book called "The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work" by Mats Alvesson. It touches on the subject of how being smart enough to be stupid at work is sometimes beneficial for everyone at a company...and how it also sometimes is not. I recommend.

Uhm...I have to chime in here.

"Anti-fragile attitude" when it comes to criticism is not built by tolerance. Quite the opposite actually. It is a common misconception. While making yourself numb against criticism IS a solution but not by far the best one.

A high criticism tolerance is learned by understanding that ones self worth is not attached to output or delivery. (This is hard in our industry) It comes from self-acceptance and compassion. And these values are learned early on. You'll find that the people that break down at the slightest criticism the most are those that were criticised the most as children as well. Those that had no room for being anything other than perfect. Where value was obtained from performance.

To take it even further...why see it as criticism at all? You are not your lines of code.