MrShaggy comments on Final Words - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: MrShaggy 27 April 2009 11:24:36PM 0 points [-]

Also note: "Power, he'd sought at first. Strength to prevent a repetition of the past. "If you don't know what you need, take power" - so went the proverb. He had gone first to the Competitive Conspiracy, then to the beisutsukai."

But the teacher has promised failure as a seemingly necessary step to mastery on this path, so it has not fulfilled what he went there for yet.