02 / prediction

17 Dec 2025

If you taught baseball that way, you wouldn’t think that people would be as good at baseball. It’s funny because, of course, what kids end up — I don’t know if you’ve had this experience, but I think a lot of faculty have had this experience — because kids are so naturally tuned to this model, what do they get to be good at at school?

“If you taught baseball that way, you wouldn’t think that people would be as good at baseball. It’s funny because, of course, what kids end up — I don’t know if you’ve had this experience, but I think a lot of faculty have had this experience — because kids are so naturally tuned to this model, what do they get to be good at at school?”

Speaker: Alison Gopnik
Episode: Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Alison Gopnik

What Alison said.

When you get big paradigm shifts, as Kuhn said, when you get big changes in science, a lot of times it’s because someone found an idea that looked like it was improbable.