From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 00:06:12 MDT
sl4.20.pris@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> Sorry folks, this was meant as an ESSAY, I forgot to put that in the subject.
>
> Eliezer Yudkowsky, I was wondering about your experiences regarding
> procrastination. I find your writings greatly inspiring and I noticed
> that you amassed and enormous amount of knowledge through independent
> studies outside of academia. I wonder how you managed to maintain the
> high level of discipline and structure required for this.
I don't think I did. I think I had an ordinary level of discipline,
if that, and above-average learning ability. I wish I had better news.
> Did or do you have a mentor?
No.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://intelligence.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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