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

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 09 January 2010 02:51:35AM 6 points [-]

Re: autodidacticism & Bayesian enlightenment

For comparison, I did a lot of self-education, but also had a conventional education (ending with a BA in Computer Science). I think I was introduced to Bayesianism in a probability class in college, and it was also the background assumption in a couple of economics courses that I took for fun (Game Theory and Industrial Organization). It seems to me that choosing pure autodidacticism probably delayed Eliezer's Bayesian enlightenment by at least a couple of years.