SilasBarta comments on Being Wrong about Your Own Subjective Experience - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 25 April 2011 09:31:02PM 0 points [-]

Again, to someone with no training, what is the difference between a moderately and an extremely challenging piece? I'm not sure if I can tell,

Sure you can: Did a rich person pay $1,000/minute for a famous violinist to perform it for them? Then it's hard.

The problem is that this classifier didn't come from nature, but is just a local cultural construction.