NancyLebovitz comments on Optimizing for attractiveness - Less Wrong

13 Post author: MrMind 31 May 2013 09:14AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 31 May 2013 09:19:19PM 0 points [-]

The trained into/not trained out of distinction is an interesting one, and I think it would take a lot of close observation to figure out which of those is dominant.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 May 2013 09:27:13PM *  1 point [-]

I think it's just a matter of where to draw the baseline on the map, rather than a question about the territory -- after all feral children don't show that much interest in clothes, do they? so children mostly “learn” whether or not to be interested in clothes from their environment -- but OTOH it's still an empirical question how much of the teaching is deliberate.