FiftyTwo comments on Final Words - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2009 09:12PM

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 19 December 2011 09:01:43PM *  8 points [-]

Does the "If you don't know what you need, take power" quote have any origin before this? I searched for it but only found it in a post on heuristics that linked back here. I would be interested in more discussion around it before I adopt it as a method.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 May 2013 03:32:28PM 3 points [-]

Reminds me of The Left Hand of Darkness - one bit where the main character says something along the lines of, 'If action ceases to be profitable, gather information.' but there were two layers to it, with something else to do either between the two or after gathering information.

Comment author: Vaniver 13 May 2013 03:48:19PM 11 points [-]

As they say in the Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.