gwern comments on Is Rationality Teachable? - Less Wrong

43 Post author: lukeprog 01 September 2011 11:59AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 01 September 2011 02:27:50PM 6 points [-]

It's possible that the camel has two humps (pdf). We don't have much evidence regarding the shapes of the subskill distributions. The connection between "rationality" and debiasing is questionable (correlation versus causality selection effects tag alongs bla bla bla). Beware motivated cognition on this subject.

Comment author: gwern 01 September 2011 04:16:27PM 16 points [-]

Speaking of the camel has two humps, replication has turned out to be difficult and the idea doesn't look very good anymore: see first quote in http://www.gwern.net/Notes#the-camel-has-two-humps

Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 September 2011 09:52:44AM 3 points [-]

Sweet, thank you.