Trevor_Blake comments on The autopilot problem: driving without experience - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 13 May 2013 12:42PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 May 2013 07:43:21PM 7 points [-]

I read your piece and replaced 'autopilot' with 'social structure' and it still works. When you use the autopilot of membership in a group, you get the same errors.

Comment author: SilasBarta 14 May 2013 05:52:03AM 11 points [-]

I seems like the curse of the gifted student is similar as well -- being naturally good-enough at the first 90% of the education makes you miss out on developing habits necessary for the last 10%.