Vladimir_Nesov comments on Counting upvotes/downvotes - Less Wrong

17 Post author: calcsam 07 August 2011 04:37AM

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Comment author: KPier 07 August 2011 05:18:38PM 1 point [-]

I'm simply not smart enough to understand the math. It feels dishonest to vote up something I didn't fully understand, but it also feels unfair to downvote something that would probably be right if I could understand it. I bet a lot of people didn't vote at all on the QM sequence, not because they didn't read them but because they didn't feel informed enough to make a judgement.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 August 2011 09:16:28PM 3 points [-]

I'm simply not smart enough to understand the math.

You don't have enough mathematical maturity to understand the math. You are smart enough to learn to understand it, quickly.