XFrequentist comments on The Need for Universal Experience Classes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XFrequentist 19 October 2011 10:41:42PM 1 point [-]

To generalize from my own experience, most people with graduate level education don't have the passion to really learn how to think.

We are the weirdest of the weirdos in this respect. A mental model that neglects this fact will be punished by reality.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2011 02:41:48AM 0 points [-]

What exactly do you mean by graduate level education? In other words,have the people that completed great Ph.D. projects never thought during that time period? Or is the problem that they don't really apply thinking outside their field (which I think is more plausible)?