Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Making Rationality General-Interest - LessWrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 July 2013 01:50:46AM 3 points [-]

Learning how to allocate attention and willpower is a skill.

Comment author: Lumifer 25 July 2013 01:59:35AM 0 points [-]

Yes, but (a) if that skill is below a certain threshold you probably won't be able to improve it; (b) empirically it's a very hard skill to acquire/practice (see all the akrasia issues with the highly intelligent LW crowd).

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 July 2013 02:27:33AM *  1 point [-]

Yep. Neither of those things are evidence against anything I've said.