snap on Nostr: Very similar here. My first experience that made me consider it was with a very good ...

Very similar here. My first experience that made me consider it was with a very good friend I grew up around who wanted to learn to program so I'd help him with it. We'd be going over very, very basic logic (literal if-then logic, allowing user input in console apps) and I'd coach him through it but they just could never make logical next-step. I'd eventually show them enough examples that they seemed to get it and then he'd hit the same sort of problem a few days later and not be able to recognize that this was the if-then thing again. Maybe with enough repetition, he'd learn to recognize the pattern, but the larger abstractions were going to take forever, if he's even capable of them at all. He gave up after I stopped having the time to walk him through basically everything and after I refused to write code for him for his online classes.

I think knowing someone like that probably helps us reconcile that there are barriers with IQ that you just literally can't overcome with empathy and feeling bad. Then we do evil pattern recognition. Also, thanks for the image. I'm sure I've seen it before but I've been trying to be more judicious about bookmarking/downloading valuable resources like that. I'm sad I didn't backup that now-privated video because it's very good.