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Jiro comments on Examples of growth mindset or practice in fiction - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 02 October 2015 03:31:51PM *  0 points [-]

Even if he trained much less, he would still achieve all the same outcomes due to his unique unearned untrained powers.

I don't believe this. Using your own example, he got senjutsu, and trained for a few months to get good at it. Without that training, would he have had the same outcome? (Remember that shadow clone acts as a training multiplier, but the multiplier doesn't do any good if there is zero training to multiply.) Without training to use the kyuubi's chakra (another example of yours), would he have achieved the same outcome?

(Edit: I'm not sure he was able to use shadow clone with senjutsu, so ignore that if it doesn't apply.)

Comment author: DanArmak 02 October 2015 07:54:45PM 0 points [-]

I said "if he trained much less", not "if he didn't train at all". For senjutsu and the Kyuubi's chakra he had to train less than others who did it before him, and achieved better results than some of them did. For the other things on my list, he didn't need to train at all.

My list was supposed to show that his skills tend to follow my analysis, not that all them do so perfectly. I still think it's a good generalization.