Will_Newsome comments on A Rationalist's Tale - LessWrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2011 12:03:37AM 0 points [-]

I agree with this perspective and in retrospect should really have emphasized the "there are many skills of rationality and I only claim to be excellent along those dimensions that I (probably after-the-fact) deem important, skills relating to building lots of models without getting attached to them and finding subtle ways in which concepts are dissatisfactory and must be improved" aspect of my alleged superiority to everything under the sun.

Comment author: Classobserver 15 September 2011 10:54:24PM 5 points [-]

These skills don't seem to actually slay any problem-monsters or do anything helpful, where wizards and clerics leave a trail of steaming corpses of those monster types. Your rare class seems to be an NPC one, like commoner or adept, which would give you a low CR.