Will_Newsome comments on Should I believe what the SIAI claims? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 13 August 2010 04:35:33PM 5 points [-]

dropping out of high school is to me evidence of high rationality

Are you talking about me? I believe I'm the only person that could sorta kinda be affiliated with the Singularity Institute who has dropped out of high school, and I'm a lowly volunteer, not at all representative of the average credentials of the people who come through SIAI. Eliezer demonstrated his superior rationality to me by never going to high school in the first place. Damn him.

Comment author: Alicorn 13 August 2010 05:01:43PM 4 points [-]

I dropped out of high school... to go to college early.

Comment author: xamdam 13 August 2010 05:46:33PM 2 points [-]

I finished high school early (16) by American standards, with college credit. By the more sane standards of Soviet education 16 is, well, standard (and you learn a lot more).

Comment author: xamdam 13 August 2010 04:59:45PM 2 points [-]

talking about this comment.

Now the first of those people I contacted about it:

There are certainly many reasons to doubt the belief system of a cult based around the haphazard musings of a high school dropout

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