thomblake comments on Rationality Quotes December 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 20 December 2012 03:22:03PM *  1 point [-]

Yes. The whole thing should be read as elaboration of one piece of advice - the individual sentences are not meant to stand on their own. If you're overwhelming the enemy with multiple attacks, then none of them should be counted as failure.

And FWIW, Musashi was primarily writing about swordsmanship, not command.