At best this was a wish that it would be nice for it to be possible to train many humans to become much more effective at research than the most able humans currently are, maybe a kind of superpower story in rationality training (doing this by the kind of large margin implied in the story doesn’t seem particularly realistic to me, primarily because learning even very well-understood technical material takes a lot of time). It’s certainly not a suggestion that reading LW does the trick, or that it’s easy (or merely very hard) to develop the necessary training program.
[The idea that one intended interpretation was that EY himself is essentially a Beisutsukai of the story is so ridiculous that participating in this conversation feels like a distinctly low-status thing to do, with mostly the bewilderment at the persistence of your argument driving me to publish this comment...]
At best this was a wish that it would be nice for it to be possible to train many humans to become much more effective at research than the most able humans currently are, maybe a kind of superpower story in rationality training (doing this by the kind of large margin implied in the story doesn’t seem particularly realistic to me, primarily because learning even very well-understood technical material takes a lot of time). It’s certainly not a suggestion that reading LW does the trick, or that it’s easy (or merely very hard) to develop the necessary training program.
[The idea that one intended interpretation was that EY himself is essentially a Beisutsukai of the story is so ridiculous that participating in this conversation feels like a distinctly low-status thing to do, with mostly the bewilderment at the persistence of your argument driving me to publish this comment...]