army1987 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] 05 October 2012 07:35:14PM *  3 points [-]

I put a pocket umbrella and/or a foldable raincoat into my handbag. Duh.

Comment author: DaFranker 05 October 2012 07:41:18PM 3 points [-]

Carrying around a handbag in the first place happens to be something that I find annoying and risky. I'm prone to leaving it in easy-to-notice, easy-to-steal places or outright forgetting it in some public location.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 October 2012 08:07:29PM 0 points [-]

Now that I think about that, that happened to me exactly once (as far as I can remember) with a handbag, though it happens to me very often¹ with other items such as keys, jackets, sweatshirts and sometimes my iPod. (I usually² eventually manage to recover them, but not always.) I guess that's because I'm more likely to immediately notice that I'm missing my bag than that I'm missing my keys.


  1. Around once per month in average.

  2. Around 90% of the times.

Comment author: Alejandro1 05 October 2012 07:41:35PM 2 points [-]

Yes, that is clearly the optimal solution. I was assuming you don't own those two items, or that you don't have a handbag the right size or don't want to use it--more plausible for a man that for a woman, I guess.