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Lumifer comments on has anyone actually gotten smarter, in the past few years, by studying rationality? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 January 2016 06:12:02PM 1 point [-]

I'd probably say that "growing older" implies accumulating experience. How well you convert that experience into wisdom (= "getting smarter") very much depends on the person (and in particular, on IQ). Some people do an excellent job out of it, others not so much.