Alicorn comments on The Shadow Question - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Alicorn 14 October 2009 01:40AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 14 October 2009 12:11:50PM *  4 points [-]

Most of the really good "lottery ticket" examples are things like starting a startup company in the hopes of being a millionaire, becoming a drug dealer in hopes of becoming a kingpin, informing a crush of their status as such in hopes of getting to be with them, and anything else on which subject you can imagine some Chicken Soup for the Soul person saying "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take".