saturn comments on The Twin Webs of Knowledge - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 28 August 2009 09:45AM

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Comment author: SforSingularity 29 August 2009 07:32:07PM 2 points [-]

So, 5 out of these 6 millionaires got there almost completely by luck

that 5 of your friends all got very lucky seems very unlikely to me. Perhaps you have a biased sample of intelligent, motivated friends (i.e. more intelligent and motivated than average).

Comment author: saturn 30 August 2009 10:35:45AM *  1 point [-]

that 5 of your friends all got very lucky seems very unlikely to me.

Perhaps Phil prefers making friends with people who are already millionaires.