Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Sin of Underconfidence - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 April 2009 08:01:29PM 3 points [-]

And conversely, as Ari observes:

If you’ve never hit the ground while skydiving, you’re opening your parachute too early.

Comment author: outlawpoet 21 April 2009 10:12:46PM 2 points [-]

er, am I misparsing this?

It seems to me that if you haven't hit the ground while skydiving, you're some sort of magician, or you landed on an artificial structure and then never got off..