Mycroft65536 comments on Reflections on rationality a year out - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 31 March 2011 04:28:49PM *  6 points [-]

Thanks. I thought I would be metaphorically smacked in the head with a trout by most people here for trying something like that after all I'd read on OB/LW.

Edit: Part of why I had joined was because it's the easiest way to get a social group in Waco. Now I don't know whether to try to relocate my life; try to find other, more appropriate groups to join here; or go for broke and try to get a stable Waco LW meetup going.

Comment author: Mycroft65536 31 March 2011 04:39:30PM 4 points [-]

It costs you almost nothing to post a meetup for a Waco group up here, and only an afternoon reading/on your laptop to wait at a failed meetup. Just because a course of action has a very high payout doesn't mean that trying it has a high cost. The universe isn't fair, and sometimes that's a good thing.

Comment author: SilasBarta 31 March 2011 04:41:03PM 4 points [-]

True; I was referring to the full cost of getting a stable one going, which is not the same as making one attempt of that type.