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With anti-drone drones.

Children don't make you happier but they do make you develop as a person. I enjoy the company of my children and it saddens me how keen most parents are to offload theirs onto minimum-wage carers (ironically at great expense).

Isn't there are standard just below rigour, though, that is still worth checking for, something like 'no obvious errors within the current paradigm'?

If an activity is illegal than naturally only radicals will express a dissenting opinion on the topic. But this has no bearing on what is right.

>could've done a better job at education

There is no test that can be made to compare different educational systems since neither knowledge nor creativity can be measured. My guess is that the students who perform best in exams are the most damaged in terms of their ability to think independently. They also become the strongest defenders of the system that did this to them.

>anti-authoritarian profile

Can you see the paradox in being made to attend an 'anti-authoritarian' institution for years on end until it changes who you are and kind of person you will become?

That's interesting. Why was the 1938 law introduced?

We have home education and government schools in England. Neither rules out the other. We also have non-religious families who home educate. There are probably secular families in Germany who would like to try too. There simply is no one-size-fits-all model of education, whether we try to impose one or not.

We school-educated people associate learning with authority and it's hard for us to truly grasp that education takes place most efficiently under conditions of freedom. Repealing Hitler's 1938 law against home education would be an important step for Germany.

An AGI would have to begin with the same values because without them he couldn't learn anything. Our values draw on the surrounding culture and an individual that grows up outside of any culture (e.g. a feral child) isn't capable of functioning. There may be different cultures but there is no alien culture. Thus there could be no alien mind.

The problem with your scenario is that it equates humans with animals, but the difference that matters is between people (humans, AGIs) and non-people (primitive replicators, animals).

We don't commit murder to get at rocks despite the fact that weren't designed with 'consideration for human values'. We learn our values, just as an AGI would, not through programming or lack thereof, but through parenting, education and culture. These latter things aren't optional since minds can't exist without them.

Any person (biological or artificial) who is capable of mass murder is unlikely to balk at slave owning. If he really wanted human-sized parcels of matter he'd be better off putting people to work in mines. A human can collect many times his own mass per day.

Humans need a bunch of atoms (stone, minerals) to survive, and we source those from quarries. This parallel is closer.

The idea that I'll use human bodies if I need a bunch of atoms makes as much sense as the premise of The Matrix i.e. harvesting humans for energy production.

You're correct: I misread the piece.

>he claims that they conflate "practice" with "deliberate practice" and therefore didn't debunk him.

This seems unfalsifiable since we don't (and presumably he doesn't) have theories about either talent or intentions which might distinguish the two cases.

Myself I practiced the piano very deliberately in my late twenties and it didn't lead to improvement. In fact it lead to RSI. However, in overcoming the RSI I learnt about what talent means (inexplicitly, I'm afraid, so I can't explain it yet). Hence my claim that it is singular across all disciplines. This includes purely intellectual skill which, following Michael Polanyi, can be thought of as a connoisseurship of ideas.

So, practice is necessary but not sufficient. It cannot compensate for lack of talent. We don't know why some people are talented and some aren't. We can only recognise it in certain fields (e.g. athletics, music). However, and switching to personal speculation: although people know different things and are interested in different things, there is only one kind of talent, is my guess.