Sniffnoy comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 03 September 2010 07:32:38PM *  3 points [-]

There's a large difference between the "leveling up" in such games, where you gain new in-game capabilities, and actually getting better, where your in-game capabilities stay the same but you learn to use them more effectively.

ETA: I guess perhaps a better way of saying it is, there's a large difference between the causal chains time->winning, and time->skill->winning.