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12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 August 2012 02:53PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 August 2012 10:35:32PM 0 points [-]

Some of the examples given with good performance - eg firefighting, chess - are not easy problems, they can be phenomenally hard to master. It's just that they can be mastered.