somervta comments on Humans are not automatically strategic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 04 April 2013 09:51:18PM 2 points [-]

Perhaps 5% of the population has enough abstract reasoning skill to verbally understand that the above heuristics would be useful once these heuristics are pointed out. That is not at all the same as the ability to automatically implement these heuristics.

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Comment author: somervta 10 May 2013 03:37:25AM *  0 points [-]

I was dubious of this also. 5% seems too low.