Tasky comments on My Algorithm for Beating Procrastination - Less Wrong

81 Post author: lukeprog 10 February 2012 02:48AM

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Comment author: timtyler 22 February 2012 04:45:31PM 1 point [-]

Millions of projects fail not because they "can't be done" but because the first 5 people who tried them failed due to boring, pedestrian reasons like procrastination or the planning fallacy.

Hmm. AFAIUI, the planning fallacy is mainly a form of self-promotion. You probably don't want to get rid of the planning fallacy - or people are less likely to want to employ you.

Comment author: Tasky 01 March 2012 10:06:46AM 1 point [-]

You should try to estimate as good as possible (i.e. without falling into fallacies) for yourself. Then you can still decide it's best to lie (a.k.a. self-promote). But getting false information won't do you any good.