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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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How Do You Negotiate This Trade-Off Between Those Skills?

In some sense, my sympathies as a dreamy scientist are with the four-year-olds. You really need to have that kind of capacity for long-term planning and executive function. The question is how do you negotiate this trade-off between those skills? And one thing that I've been getting interested in historically, is that you often see cultures setting up the idea of these kind of cycles where new things happen.

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