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54 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 July 2007 05:45PM

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Comment author: David_J._Balan 13 July 2007 12:35:57AM 1 point [-]

I'm very sympathetic to the idea contained in the post. In fact, I used to say something similar in my graduate student gig as a freshman orientation guy. But teaching and learning real thought are hard. Can everybody teach it and learn it? Is there any sense in which what goes on now is not optimal, but is (or at least is not too far from) constrained optimal?