wedrifid comments on Helpless Individuals - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 March 2009 11:10AM

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Comment author: SilasBarta 03 December 2010 07:16:58PM *  0 points [-]

And their music wouldn't necessarily be intelligible to you either, due to the musical analogue of inferential distance.

Wait, what's musical inference like? Is it anything like how you wouldn't truly appreciate the latest, top theologians because the theological analogue of inferential distance?

Edit: Looks like you gave an answer to this in the sibling thread, but I think the point still stands.

(You already know what I think about "You need years of study to appreciate this.")

Comment author: komponisto 03 December 2010 09:00:41PM 0 points [-]

(You already know what I think about "You need years of study to appreciate this.")

If you can do it in less time, so much the better.

Comment author: SilasBarta 03 December 2010 09:05:57PM -2 points [-]

That's just compounding the error -- for comparison: "If you can appreciate the current top theological innovations without having gone to seminary, hey, all the better -- that's proof of your worth, rather than our own cliquishness!"