Benito comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong

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Comment author: Benito 07 April 2014 08:28:01PM *  2 points [-]

Oops, I didn't mean to sound quite so arrogant, and I merely meant in the top bit of the class. If you do want to know my actual reasons for thinking so, off the top of my head I'd mention teachers saying so generally, teachers saying so specifically, performance in maths competitions, a small year group such that I know everyone in the class fairly well and can see their abilities, observation of marks (grades) over the past six years, and I get paid to tutor maths to students in lower years.

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Comment author: SkepticalExcitement 08 April 2014 07:46:09PM 5 points [-]

Word of advice: don't put too much attention into your "potential". That's an unfalsifiable hypothesis that you can use to inflate your ego without actually, you know, being good. Look at your actual results, and only those.