gwern comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 09 September 2012 04:52:05PM 4 points [-]

If that's true, then there could be no use in finding a place because you would then follow the quote's advice and never return again!

Per Bohr's advice we can identify this as a meaningless 'profound truth' by reversing it:

If you are lost, then you are at a place no one has found before... What's the use of being in unmapped territory?

Comment author: woodside 10 September 2012 09:03:34PM 1 point [-]

I took the quote as a call to explore. Don't just be satisfied with learning things other people have figured out, try to creatively venture into the unknown yourself.

Comment author: gwern 10 September 2012 09:23:23PM 0 points [-]