AspiringKnitter comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 05 April 2012 12:53:47AM 2 points [-]

this should mean that humans raised in cultural and social vacuums ought to be disproportionately talented at everything

And yet, they're actually worse at many cognitive tasks. Language, especially, is pretty hard for them to pick up after a certain point.