anonym comments on Kinnaird's truels - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Johnicholas 05 March 2009 04:50PM

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Comment author: anonym 06 March 2009 06:08:26PM 2 points [-]

My first thought exactly. It reminds me of the story from the Chuang Tzu regarding the hideously gnarled tree that survives to a ripe old age due to its 'flaws'.

Likewise, many employees feign incompetence with respect to certain kinds of tasks -- e.g., programmers feigning incompetence with regard to anything managerial.