billswift comments on Why do people commit mathematical mistakes? What are the mechanisms behind them? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 09 September 2011 12:21:44AM 0 points [-]

"Be more careful" is meta-advice, most people don't actually start trying to be careful until they recognize the need. Worse, and I don't understand why, but they often need to be reminded of it again in different situations, that is the need to be careful or to pay close attention seems to be context dependent.