michaelcurzi comments on What Curiosity Looks Like - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 06 January 2012 09:28PM

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Comment author: michaelcurzi 07 January 2012 05:34:11AM 1 point [-]

I would love to hear more about how playing chess helps whatever skills you think it helps.

Comment author: wedrifid 07 January 2012 05:46:01AM 10 points [-]

I would love to hear more about how playing chess helps whatever skills you think it helps.

I expect it helps with your dubstep moves.

Comment author: Solvent 07 January 2012 08:41:06AM 2 points [-]

Will is never going to live that down.

Comment author: wedrifid 07 January 2012 10:03:07AM 3 points [-]

If someone does a study on it and turns out that he is right he'll be laughing at us something shocking!

Comment author: atucker 07 January 2012 05:43:12AM -1 points [-]

If I understand correctly, good chess players use something like motor planning for playing chess.

In general improving my motor planning over abstractions seems like a good way of getting the part of my brain that actually works really well for planning to get better at planning, and doing things.