billswift comments on Bad reasons for a rationalist to lose - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 20 May 2009 12:47:23AM 1 point [-]

Another is failure of knowledge. It's possible simply not to know something you need to succeed, at the time you need it. No one can know everything they might possibly need to. It is not irrational, if you did not know that you would need to know beforehand.