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Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 25, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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It seems to me that there is a developmental window for learning potentially hazardous adulting skills which opens in early adolescence and closes in your very late teens or very early twenties.

In the environment of evolutionary adaptedness this is stuff like learning to identify poisonous mushrooms from edible ones; today driving is the main example. I didn’t have that experience, but it seems extremely common with adults learning to drive.