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Solvent comments on Open Thread, January 15-31, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 16 January 2012 12:56AM

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Comment author: Solvent 17 January 2012 06:10:59AM 3 points [-]

a) Listen to them playing.

Speaking as a guitar and piano player. I can do things on guitar and piano that are fairly easy, but look very impressive to someone who doesn't play the instrument. You actually need to play an instrument before you can judge how good someone is accurately.

(Obviously, it's pretty obvious if someone is distinctly bad. But distinguishing different levels of "good" is hard.)