gwern comments on Open thread, August 19-25, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 27 August 2013 03:10:29PM 0 points [-]

DUH

The answer to the question I am asking (whether perceived difficulty interacts with cryptography knowledge) is not 'duh', and is difficult-to-impossible to answer without a poll. If you think the answer is duh, you are not understanding the point of the poll and you are underrating the possible inferential distance & curses of knowledge at play in trying to guess the answer.