gwern comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 11 September 2010 10:37:03PM 1 point [-]

RAND has a lot of good work (I like their recent reports on Iran), but keep in mind that big misses can undo a lot of their credit; for example, even RAND acknowledges (in their retrospective published this year or last) that they screwed up massively with Vietnam.