Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on "Stuck In The Middle With Bruce" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: patrissimo 11 April 2009 01:41:08AM 2 points [-]

Most poker players, even the losing ones, don't like losing, but I think it is sometimes a driver for losing players continuing to play. Sometimes it is self-hatred (vindicating the feeling that you don't deserve to win). Sometimes it is the desire to whine - to have something bad happen to you that can plausibly be blamed on someone else.

Actually, from what I have read, feeling like one doesn't deserve to succeed, and self-sabotaging, and feeling some kind of sick satisfaction when one fails, is pretty common.