From: Ben Houston (ben@exocortex.org)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 10:47:13 MDT
First off, no offense intended to Aaron.
Brian said:
> I wouldn't call it a social interaction. James' "nasty" post probably
> had the quite positive effect of upping Aaron's realization of his own
> levels of incompetence. It clearly was some very constructive
criticism
> as long as Aaron takes it the right way. Better to learn more about
your
> own levels of competence here than find out the hard way sometime in
the
> future in some much more important situation (or to go through life
mis-
> believing how great your skills and knowledge are).
The background for this statement is in the following paper:
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
By Justin Kruger and David Dunning
http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html
Cheers,
-ben houston
http://www.exocortex.org/~ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sysopmind.com [mailto:owner-sl4@sysopmind.com] On
Behalf
> Of Brian Atkins
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:26 AM
> To: sl4@sysopmind.com
> Subject: Re: hello
>
> I wouldn't call it a social interaction. James' "nasty" post probably
> had the quite positive effect of upping Aaron's realization of his own
> levels of incompetence. It clearly was some very constructive
criticism
> as long as Aaron takes it the right way. Better to learn more about
your
> own levels of competence here than find out the hard way sometime in
the
> future in some much more important situation (or to go through life
mis-
> believing how great your skills and knowledge are).
>
> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
> >
> > Jordan Dimov wrote:
> > >
> > > Well!! That sure turned ME off this list!
> >
> > James Rogers is not a moderator, owner, or affiliated with SIAI.
That
> > being the case, he can say whatever he likes - and if you don't like
it,
> > you're free to say so as well. It is not my job to regulate social
> > interactions on this list, just squash them if they get out of
control.
> >
> > -- -- -- -- --
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/
> > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
> --
> Brian Atkins
> Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> http://www.intelligence.org/
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