Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Think Like a Supervillain - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 08:34AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 30 March 2013 11:00:19PM *  0 points [-]

Maybe, but "supervillain" sounds better in the title and is more fun to say.

Comment author: Paamayim 28 February 2014 05:41:23PM 0 points [-]

It might be more fun to say, but "I think like a supervillian" seems like a particularly dangerous cached thought to have, in that it will inspire overconfidence if you /ever actually encounter a supervillian/. A very smart agent whose goals are in direct conflict with yours AND who has no scruples AND hasn't forsworn the dark arts is /not someone you think like/.