Scottbert comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: Scottbert 03 October 2012 04:35:09PM 4 points [-]

I think the idea is that the hypothetical teacher is making students memorize passwords instead of teaching the meaning of the concept.