The irony here, of course, is that Eliezer has written at length about the importance of being able to reconstruct the argument that convinces one that X is true, not just recite “X is true.”
Reconstructing such, given time, is something I can do. But I can’t do it in real time for non-trivial arguments. Does that make me a minority here? I have never been able to do that for any abstract argument that I can think of, except maybe in my area of professional expertise where all the relevant information is perpetually in cache.
The irony here, of course, is that Eliezer has written at length about the importance of being able to reconstruct the argument that convinces one that X is true, not just recite “X is true.”
Reconstructing such, given time, is something I can do. But I can’t do it in real time for non-trivial arguments. Does that make me a minority here? I have never been able to do that for any abstract argument that I can think of, except maybe in my area of professional expertise where all the relevant information is perpetually in cache.
I doubt it makes you a minority anywhere.