shokwave comments on Tallinn-Evans $125,000 Singularity Challenge - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 01 January 2011 11:08:34PM 5 points [-]

I am tentatively against this option (as it applies to timtyler only; I don't know if you had anyone else in mind). While you are entirely correct in your description and your concern of lowered quality, I have found that reflecting on my discussions with tim have had some positive effects for me (learning that the function that describes the quality of an explanation has a larger term for the listener than the explainer, making arguments explicit tends to bring out hidden premises and expose weak inferences).

Conditional on other posters having similar experiences, I suggest treating timtyler as a koan of sorts.