AnthonyC comments on Non-communicable Evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnthonyC 20 November 2015 09:21:18PM 3 points [-]

I can't imagine being a professional programmer until it's a System 1 activity at least half of the time.

This. In just about every field. It helps that in programming, and some of the sciences, that there is quick feedback. I have a physics degree but my job is fuzzier than that. After 4 years a lot of the time judgments start as "This doesn't sound right " and a lot of the work is reconstructing a communicable line of reasoning.

Comment author: helldalgo 20 November 2015 09:36:10PM *  0 points [-]

I'm glad my intuition has been borne out by real people!