self-actualizing comments on BHTV: Yudkowsky / Robert Greene - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 November 2009 08:26PM

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Comment author: self-actualizing 17 November 2009 08:44:18PM 0 points [-]

I actually only got to see the first half of this, so I missed "always attack before you are ready." I like it, but how was it justified/explained?

Comment author: childofbaud 15 January 2010 06:27:22PM *  0 points [-]

I can't remember the exchange verbatim, but the way I interpreted it was as a way to cope with the analysis paralysis phenomenon that can occur when one is confronted with a lot of information.

According to Greene's quoted maxim, it is always advisable to act before all the data has been gathered (presumably because one can never gather all the data).