nyan_sandwich comments on Rationality and Winning - Less Wrong

19 Post author: lukeprog 04 May 2012 06:31PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 May 2012 04:44:03AM *  10 points [-]

you can be an expert on rationality without being an expert at rationality.

Comment author: JGWeissman 05 May 2012 05:00:58AM 7 points [-]

With that terminology, I would read shminux's comment as saying: "I have trouble calling rational a person who is an expert on rationality but not an expert at rationality." Where is the failure?

Comment author: [deleted] 05 May 2012 05:24:45AM 0 points [-]

I may have slightly misread shminux's post, or failed to make my point (which I have now forgotten). I will patch my post to at least make sense.

Comment author: shminux 05 May 2012 05:34:16AM 0 points [-]

"... those who cannot, teach."

Comment author: [deleted] 05 May 2012 03:07:00PM 3 points [-]

"Those who can, do, those who know, teach"

The less cynical and more realistic original formulation

Comment author: private_messaging 06 May 2012 12:12:23PM *  1 point [-]

Unfortunately, in practice, those who don't know like to teach too. Fortunately, some of those who can, also teach, so you could listen to those who can.