taw comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 21 August 2010 02:22:25AM 0 points [-]

Or, you could mean: take any one person from that class. That one person is extremely unlikely to actually save the world.

This is uncontroversial.

I agree, but Eliezer strongly rejects this claim. Probably by making a reference class for just himself.