gwern comments on Rationality Quotes: November 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 16 November 2010 12:09:24AM *  2 points [-]

"Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas."

Erwin Rommel, The Rommel Papers (1982) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel#Sourced

Comment author: [deleted] 16 November 2010 03:02:50AM 0 points [-]

This reminds me of the phrase "nobody learns faster than someone who is being shot at". Considering all the technological research done in war time, there seems to be a good point about motivation.