Dr_Manhattan comments on Can the Chain Still Hold You? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 14 January 2012 12:25:30AM *  3 points [-]

I understand the desire to be inspirational

Inspiration would be wothless anyway if it was useless (other than making yourself feel good I guess)

How much more is possible? Under what circumstances? etc.

Try and find out!

The way I understood this is that people are overly pessimistic and do not attempt things within their reach. (I might have been a somewhat specific message to the "rationalist" crowd since we tend to overthink, be skeptical and highly risk averse).