SilasBarta comments on Let Them Debate College Students - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 06:15PM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 09 September 2009 06:30:36PM 2 points [-]

Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose though, when you have to apply nearly as much filtering to the potential science representatives as a PhD program does?

(Btw, a lot of your hedging about qualified debaters seems inspired by my misgivings about taking a random TA.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 September 2009 07:38:34PM 0 points [-]

Well, not literally inspired. I originally wrote the post before you wrote that comment. :)

Comment author: SilasBarta 10 September 2009 03:15:09AM 0 points [-]

Suuuure you did! Think you can prove the necessary conditional independence? ;-)