Yvain comments on Shut Up And Guess - Less Wrong

79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 05:03:58AM 17 points [-]

Oh my dear lord Cthulhu. Can I ask what level of class this was? If you say it was a postgraduate course at MIT, I may gather the last sane members of the human race and move to Pluto.

Comment author: Yvain 21 July 2009 03:35:27PM *  8 points [-]

Postgraduate course at a university that's not Ivy League caliber but reasonably well-respected. In contrast to ahem some of the comments below, these people are all quite smart, some consistently better able to understand difficult concepts than I and a few having good original published research. This sort of rationality stuff is just a different skill that some smart people just don't have aptitude in.

Comment author: jooyous 13 February 2013 02:11:38AM 1 point [-]

What discipline was the class in? Did the subject matter itself prime people away from thinking about probabilities? o.O