whowhowho comments on Decision Theory FAQ - Less Wrong

52 Post author: lukeprog 28 February 2013 02:15PM

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Comment author: whowhowho 14 March 2013 04:40:18PM * 0 points [-]

What does knowing everything about airline safety statistics, and nothing else, have to do with intelligence? That sort of thing is called Savant ability -- short for ''idiot savant''.

Comment author: [deleted] 15 March 2013 01:16:48PM 0 points [-]

I guess there's a link missing (possibly due to a missing <http://> in the Markdown) after the second word.