[chongli]

We can't all be Wesley Crusher. I see stories like the one about the five-year-old in China with the 15-page CV and I'm filled with dismay [1]. As a university student, I bear witness to the unbelievable pressure and stress in my peers (and much of it affects me). There's a palpable sense that school is a life raft and everyone is desperate to climb aboard.

This is no way to live. I don't have any idea how to solve this problem but I would be glad to see a discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18368622

[Rescis]

If reading about Wesley Crusher makes you and I function perceptibly worse, I would argue that doing so is the opposite of striving for perfection. We, as biologically limited beings, have to understand that perfection for robots is different than perfection for people, and that we need to optimize towards being the best possible human we can.

As an aside, I think one of the points of that article was the the parents were inflating a bunch of achievements.