JulianMorrison comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 08 January 2010 12:40:53AM -1 points [-]

I'm surprised you found my "success creating rationalists" Q confusing. What are the factors of success? How many, how good, how successful are the teaching techniques, can the techniques scale to more than just a clique (or to trees-of-cliques), is the teacher-pupil-teacher cycle properly closed, and so on.

Comment author: MichaelGR 08 January 2010 01:25:28AM 2 points [-]

I'm surprised you found my "success creating rationalists" Q confusing.

Here's the entirety of your original question:

How do you characterize the success of your attempt to create rationalists?

The precisions that you added here would certainly have helped make things clearer.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 08 January 2010 01:33:45AM *  -1 points [-]

I thought the implications of "success" in the context of "create rationalists" were clear. Or, that a person setting out to generate implications would produce a stochastic approximation of the ones that interested me. (And I was also interested in the shape of that approximation.)