Will_Newsome comments on Ability to react - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 February 2011 11:59:39AM *  -1 points [-]

I vividly remember allowing a pigeon to die due to not acting quickly enough, and I've always been bad at social interaction with people I didn't know well, but I was also rather good at high school basketball and multiplayer FPS video games. Thus it seems that domain-specific perception of self-competence might be important, and that patterns of slow reaction might be self-perpetuating (compounded by actual lack of competence),