RolfAndreassen comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 06 August 2013 03:49:17PM 26 points [-]

He took literally five seconds for something I'd spent two weeks on, which I guess is what being an expert means

-- Graduate student of our group, recognising a level above his own in a weekly progress report

Comment author: linkhyrule5 06 August 2013 07:41:07PM 8 points [-]

Now I'm curious about the context...

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 07 August 2013 04:34:34PM 6 points [-]

It wasn't very interesting - some issue of how to make one piece of software talk to the code you'd just written and then store the output somewhere else. Not physics, just infrastructure. But the recognition of the levels was interesting, I thought. Although I do believe "literally five seconds" is likely an exaggeration.