michael_vassar comments on Above-Average AI Scientists - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 September 2008 11:04AM

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Comment author: michael_vassar 30 September 2008 04:37:00AM 8 points [-]

Eliezer: I'm pretty sure that MANY very smart people learn more from working on hard problems and failing quite frequently than from reading textbooks and practicing easy problems. Both should be part of an intellectual diet.