matt comments on Working Mantras - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2009 10:08PM

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Comment author: matt 26 August 2009 10:09:17PM *  0 points [-]

But if your first approach to every task is right, you're not picking difficult enough tasks.

Sometimes a good approach will fail anyway, and sometimes failure indicates the need for a new approach... but your mantras are catchier.