thomblake comments on 3 Levels of Rationality Verification - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 05:19PM

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Comment author: thomblake 16 March 2009 08:37:19PM 2 points [-]

You have to admit that's an empirical question, though. It could be that getting the competence to do well on rationality tests requires the same skill as applying the same knowledge to real life. There are some areas where 'fake it till you make it' works, and there are some things you can't pretend to do without actually succeeding in doing the thing.