shokwave comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 03 September 2011 06:28:06PM 16 points [-]

"Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. "

--Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2006, p. 255

Comment author: shokwave 04 September 2011 03:43:59PM 1 point [-]

Not if Western society is anything to go by. Not asking (but knowing the answer) produces a lifetime's worth of successes, as far as I can tell.