Qiaochu_Yuan comments on What are your rules of thumb? - Less Wrong

19 Post author: DataPacRat 15 February 2013 03:59PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 15 February 2013 09:59:49PM 11 points [-]

This is a great argument for learning some subject well regardless of what the subject is. A related point is that knowing a subject well exposes you to the idea of long inferential distances.