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Omid comments on Memes and Rational Decisions - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: inferential 09 January 2015 06:42AM

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Comment author: Omid 09 January 2015 02:37:25PM 2 points [-]

How smart do you have to be in order to follow this advice? Are we talking two standard deviations or five?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 January 2015 03:03:19PM 5 points [-]

My guess is that you have to be pretty smart but not astonishingly smart to understand the argument, and likewise for becoming an actuary.

The really rare trait is the ability to take ideas seriously enough to act on them.