nyan_sandwich comments on Skill: The Map is Not the Territory - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 October 2012 09:59AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 October 2012 01:17:02PM 2 points [-]

There's also the matter of political situations and similar were its -arguably- good to be generally overconfident.

No. It may be good to talk shit like you're overconfident. Actually being overconfident is just unnecesarily shooting yourself in the foot.