katydee comments on Skills and Antiskills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 27 April 2014 09:32:01AM *  1 point [-]

I used the term antiskill for parallelism with the concept of an antipattern. While I agree it is somewhat imprecise, I think the parallelism, ease of use in speech, and general aesthetic virtue of the term is enough for it to be better than "disadvantageous skill"-- though I had considered that earlier and certainly think it's a potentially valid choice

The martial arts example I provided in this comment may prove to your liking.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 27 April 2014 10:19:55AM 0 points [-]

The martial arts example I provided in this comment may prove to your liking.

Indeed it does. I have to point out that even that skill strongly depends on context (albeit a specifc but very common context).