MrHen comments on Epistemic Luck - Less Wrong

74 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2010 12:02AM

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Comment author: MrHen 09 February 2010 06:24:38PM 2 points [-]

Obviously this concept breaks down when considering the nature of communication. If I were a genius and moved to Kyrgyzstan I would never be understand because I don't know Kyrgyz or Russian.

More relevantly, I would expect that the ability to explain things has a stronger correlation with the ability to model other minds than it does with intelligence.