noahlt comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 06:30AM

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Comment author: noahlt 20 April 2009 07:30:29AM 4 points [-]

What is the danger of overconfidence?

Passing up opportunities. Not doing thing you could have done, but didn't try (hard enough).

Did you mean "danger of underconfidence"?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 04:17:08PM 2 points [-]

Yes. Fixed. Thanks.

Apparently "danger of overconfidence" is cached in my mind to the point that even when the whole point of the article is the opposite, it still comes out that way. Case in point!