MBlume comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: AlexU 04 April 2009 08:54:08PM *  12 points [-]

Still, if everyone who does succeed has an irrational belief in their own success, then it's not wrong to conclude that such a belief is probably a prerequisite (though certainly not a "guarantee") for success.

Comment author: MBlume 05 April 2009 03:42:43AM 1 point [-]

were it a guarantee, it would not be irrational