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RichardKennaway comments on Skills and Antiskills - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: katydee 26 April 2014 06:54AM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 14 December 2014 08:30:38PM 0 points [-]

There's more than one affordance. For example, the one of being able to go out without having to think all the time about safe routes and sticking to brightly lit public spaces.

Would you avoid making yourself better at thinking because you might start winning arguments by bamboozling your opponent?

Comment author: katydee 15 December 2014 08:47:22AM 0 points [-]

Would you avoid making yourself better at thinking because you might start winning arguments by bamboozling your opponent?

I do avoid making myself better at arguing for this reason. Thinking is another story.