rwallace comments on Why Support the Underdog? - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Yvain 05 April 2009 12:01AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 April 2009 07:27:27PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I've noticed. If I were to make a list of the top 3 rationalist errors, they'd be overconfidence, overcomplication, and underconfidence.

Either that or there's some kind of ancient echo of protecting the underdog in effort to keep the tribal power balance.