Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Unteachable Excellence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2009 03:33PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2009 10:44:28PM 7 points [-]

That, plus the idea that in a hunter-gatherer tribe, the idols to emulate are probably people not too distant from you, but one Warren Buffett out of the whole world might involve rarer luck, rarer genes, and harder skills to learn.