James_Miller comments on Rationality Quotes: December 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 03 December 2010 04:26:31PM 2 points [-]

Why? I can see why there is a greater marginal value to putting more time into learning if you are bright, but why is there a higher marginal value of learning more if you are bright especially if, like almost everything else, there is eventually diminishing marginal returns to learning and bright people know more than not bright people.

Comment author: Snowyowl 03 December 2010 10:06:21PM 4 points [-]

Bright people have more unanswered questions, maybe? You can't be pondering the Gibbs paradox without knowing much more about thermodynamics than I currently do.