mathnerd314

(extended rewrite of http://lesswrong.com/lw/lpf/the_truth_about_mathematical_ability/) There's widespread confusion about the nature of ability, for a variety of reasons: Most people don't know what it is. Most people don't know enough statistics to analyze the question properly. Most people are not very metacognitive. Very few people have more than a casual interest...

Eliezer's writing style of A->B, then A, then B, though generally clear, results in a large amount of redundancy. In this post, I have attempted to reduce the number of rules needed to remember by half. The numbers are the rules from the original post. So, without further ado, a...