gwern comments on Expecting Short Inferential Distances - Less Wrong
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This is one of the more interesting approaches to the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (as I dub this species of thought problem) - that you don't need any special preparation because your basic background means that you'll spend the rest of your life in the past rushing around yelling 'don't do that, you idiot, do it this way!'
Diplomacy might actually be the best preparation.