>> Some might say that if they get conservation of mass >> and newton's law then they skipped all the useless stuff! > OK, but those "some" probably don't include any preschool > teachers or educational theorists.> That hypothesis is completely at odds > with my own intuition > from having raised 3 kids and spent probably hundreds of hours > helping out in daycare centers, preschools, kindergartens, etc. Sorry, that was just kind of a joke. Probably nobody actually has the opinion I was lampooning though I do see similar things said sometimes, as if inferring minimum-description-length root level reductionisms is a realistic approach to learning to deal with the world. It might even be true, but the humor was supposed to be to juxtapose that idea with the AGI preschool.
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