steven0461 comments on Make your training useful - Less Wrong

93 Post author: AnnaSalamon 12 February 2011 02:14AM

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Comment author: steven0461 12 February 2011 10:57:42PM *  0 points [-]

Your friends and family are weirder (more unlike your models) than you think they are.

This seems like a weird thing to be confidently asserting in a discussion of overconfidence.

Comment author: Swimmer963 13 February 2011 01:07:46AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't reading it as a confident statement of fact, more as a warning to consider the possibility that other minds are more unlike you than you've imagined.