bentarm comments on On Things that are Awesome - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 March 2009 03:24AM

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Comment author: MichaelHoward 24 March 2009 02:15:51PM 1 point [-]

For most people their truly awesome work is usually only a slice of their total output, from some particular years (I find that scary as hell, by the way).

Has anyone any good possible explanations for this phenomenon?

Comment author: bentarm 24 March 2009 05:39:16PM 10 points [-]

Surely the explanation is just that things which are unusually good are unusual. You wouldn't expect someone to write a book as good as GEB every time they wrote a book, just as you wouldn't expect any given book to be as good as GEB (although I personally got more out of Le Ton Beau de Marot...)