Konkvistador comments on Intellectual insularity and productivity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 June 2012 11:46:32PM 9 points [-]

Well, as the great Iezer-el son of AIXI once wrote in the Scroll "Why Our Kind Can't Concentrate", LWers tend to be biased towards contrarianism, criticism, and anti-authoritarianism. So you're hardly alone.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 June 2012 05:26:56AM 5 points [-]

"Why Our Kind Can't Concentrate",

I may be missing the joke but I think you are refering to "Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate".

Comment author: gwern 12 June 2012 02:38:06PM 2 points [-]

It was a typo, but then I realized it was an equally valid way of describing the consequences of our biases: we can't concentrate on any particular theory or approach...