awkward comments on Don't judge a skill by its specialists - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Academian 26 September 2010 08:56PM

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Comment author: awkward 30 September 2010 08:03:01PM 2 points [-]

From another angle, would you say that the value of a skill is separate from the social signals given by learning that particular skill? The social signals of the examples (gaming, physics, math) seem fairly clustered.