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Comment author: Curiouskid 26 November 2011 09:27:22PM * 1 point [-]

I stopped reading the "soft" pop science books I while ago because I felt that they were a bit repetitive (especially in psych). Luckily, my neighbor works as Pearson, so I get free textbooks on Ev. Psych and AI.
There was a discussion somewhere (that I'm trying desperately to find) that discussed how necessary it was to be a math genius to contribute to SIAI research. EDIT: found it

Comment author: jsteinhardt 27 November 2011 12:34:26AM 1 point [-]

Comment author: Curiouskid 27 November 2011 01:18:24AM 0 points [-]

No. It was something by lukeprog I think. IIRC, he was talking about cognitive science publications.