matt comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 April 2012 01:13:30PM 1 point [-]

list of weak evidence

Some of it is weak evidence for the hardness claim (3 years degree), some against (all the rest). Does that match what you meant?

Comment author: matt 24 April 2012 07:28:04AM *  1 point [-]

I'd intended a different meaning of "hard". On reflection your interpretation seems a very reasonable inference from what I wrote.

What I meant: Teaching is hard enough that you shouldn't expect to find it easy without having spent any time studying it. Even as a well educated westerner, the bits of teaching you can reasonably expect to pick up won't take you far down the path to mastery.

(Thank you for you comment - it got me thinking.)