Liron comments on Wisdom for Smart Teens - my talk at SPARC 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: caffemacchiavelli 11 February 2015 03:18:55PM *  1 point [-]

I enjoyed it, thanks for sharing. (Btw, are there more general, practical utility lectures like this?)

When you talk about being underwhelmed with other students, could you go into detail what criteria you'd specifically assess when making that judgment?

I've noticed that most intellectual doujins tend to think of themselves as particularly special and of other people as not quite as much, even if the empirical evidence isn't all that convincing (Mensa can be notoriously bad about this, so is the "I have goals!" self-help crowd), so I always take some time to look at the actual data before adopting a similar belief.

Comment author: Liron 11 February 2015 10:21:19PM 2 points [-]

Re general lectures, I also have a couple more of my own at liron.me/talks.