James_Miller comments on Tolerate Tolerance - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 March 2009 07:34AM

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Comment author: James_Miller 21 March 2009 03:32:32PM 22 points [-]

"of someone who I wrote off as hopeless within 30 seconds of being introduced to them."

Few college professors would do this because many students are unimpressive when you first talk with them but than do brilliantly on exams and papers.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 19 December 2011 10:44:39PM 19 points [-]

I've known people be hopeless for months, then suddenly for no observable reason begin acting brilliantly, another reminder that small data sets aren't sufficient to predict a system as complex as human behaviour.