Tenek comments on Some rationality tweets - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 30 December 2010 07:14AM

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Comment author: Tenek 30 December 2010 03:13:34PM *  2 points [-]

There's a difference between learning a skill and learning a skill while remaining human. You need to decide which you want.

Learning how to transplant a kidney is much easier when you have a few dozen people to experiment on. (I think that was the idea, anyways...)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 31 December 2010 02:08:56AM 1 point [-]

I thought it referred to training at one thing so hard that you become incapable of doing anything else. Like the programmer who forgets to shower, eat, sleep, etc.

Comment author: MichaelHoward 30 December 2010 04:49:09PM 1 point [-]

But the tweet is directed at the reader. Surely Peter didn't expect many of his readers to be faced with that sort of decision while learning their skills?