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XiXiDu comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2011 07:58PM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 30 January 2011 04:44:17PM *  7 points [-]

After trying to read No License To Be Human I officially give up reading the sequences for now and postpone it until I learnt a lot more. I think it is wrong to suggest that anyone can read the sequences. Either you've to be a prodigy or a post-graduate. The second comment on that post expresses my own feelings, can people actually follow Yudkowsky's posts? It's over my head.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 30 January 2011 05:08:28PM 5 points [-]

I agree with you sentiment, but I suggest not giving up so easily. I have the same feeling after many sequence posts, but some of them that I groked were real gems and seriously affected my thinking.

Also, borrowing some advice on reading hard papers, it's re-reading that makes a difference.

Also, as my coach put it "the best stretching for doing sidekicks is actually doing sidekicks".