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Manfred comments on High School Lectures - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Xece 15 September 2012 06:05AM

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Comment author: Manfred 15 September 2012 06:55:20AM *  11 points [-]

Remember to make inferential distance work for you: if you try and cover more than about 5 blogpostsworth of material at once, it'll end poorly because it'll be too much for your audience to take in - that's that bad side of inferential distance. But there's a good side too: if you just do a few things with very high quality, even if it doesn't seem like that much to you, if can be really impressive to your audience because most of it will be new to them.

Also, if you ever do a talk on human biases (as opposed to philosophy / AI design), I recommend that you make sure that your talk teaches the audience the preliminaries of talking about biases, while still seeming to just be about biases. Otherwise...