Qiaochu_Yuan comments on The Centre for Applied Rationality: a year later from a (somewhat) outside perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 May 2013 08:40:08AM *  6 points [-]

There are still different levels of skills here, e.g. "learn to recognize when Bayes is relevant to a real-life situation" and then "learn to recognize when Bayes is relevant to a real-life situation even when you're under emotional stress." It's probably easier to learn the first rather than skipping directly to the second. (And for what it's worth, the Bayes unit has gone through a large number of iterations and, I have been told, has finally started working. It does indeed emphasize building habits rather than abstract understanding.)