[ExI] relevant skills movement, was: RE: emp again

[Stefano Vaj]

On 29 April 2012 12:20, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> I see two important aspects of learning mental arithmetic:
> Fourth, there is general numeracy.
>

Two as in... four? :-)

But yes, I think that "orders of magnitude" is really a way of thinking. My
son, age 12, is bordering on the idiot savant in respect of mental
arithmetic, but he is in turn amazed how I can get to results that are
"almost right" much faster than him.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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