It’s hard to credit @robinhanson’s argument when it seems to hinge on taking for granted that the reasons fellow parents enroll their kids in music lessons is THE reason why people do it. https://t.co/HAAJAMhMvJ Also, using that logic, we shouldn’t be “forcing” kids to learn trig or read poetry or local lit or try out basic science experiments like we do in schools. (I don’t do simple physics experiments or geotrig much these days. Much basic education is “useless” in this way.)