ABranco comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ABranco 13 October 2009 05:36:57PM 1 point [-]

Paul Erdös did it regularly, yes. Successfully, it seems — but I wonder about the costs. Does anyone have consistent data on that?

Picking only Erdös' case, would, I'm afraid, be a case of both survivorship bias and hasty generalization.