What I find interesting is that the pattern nearly always goes the other way: you’re more likely to think that a celebrated problem you understand well is harder than one you don’t know much about. It says a lot about both Eliezer’s and Scott’s rationality that they think of the other guy’s hard problems as even harder than their own.
What I find interesting is that the pattern nearly always goes the other way: you’re more likely to think that a celebrated problem you understand well is harder than one you don’t know much about. It says a lot about both Eliezer’s and Scott’s rationality that they think of the other guy’s hard problems as even harder than their own.