Vladimir_Nesov comments on On the Care and Feeding of Young Rationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 14 March 2009 08:10:56PM *  10 points [-]

How big an impact do genes have on the potential of an individual to become a rationalist?

Too big. If rationality was reliably taught, it wouldn't require more-than-normal fluid intelligence to have a nontrivial probability of turning into a systematic rationalist.