Eliezer Yudkowsky is a high school dropout with no formal education in anything.
...and yet people write lists like this about him.
(Damn, I think that belongs on the list!)
Here we evidently have another case study in misunderstanding. I'm guessing the person who downvoted the parent thought that I was somehow agreeing with the grandparent; in point of fact, however, just the opposite is true. The parent is actually a rebuke of the grandparent that simultaneously incorporates additional praise for Eliezer. It says, in effect, "the very fact that Eliezer garners this kind of tribute should tell you that maybe his lack of formal education does not have the significance it normally would; in fact, since a lack of formal edu...
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