smoofra comments on Saturation, Distillation, Improvisation: A Story About Procedural Knowledge And Cookies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 24 May 2009 10:36:20AM -1 points [-]

This kind of knowledge is very easy, as it's cheap to experiment, there is little randomness, and it's easy to measure outcomes.

A more difficult case of procedural knowledge acquisition problem: seducing women.

Comment author: smoofra 24 May 2009 02:26:27PM *  5 points [-]

Go try to figure out how to make great sourdough bread from information you read on the Internet. You'll find there's tons of information, written by people that know what they're doing and have had success doing it, but it's still damn hard to learn how to get it right yourself.