Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 04 March 2013 06:41:43PM 1 point [-]

The phrase was "unlikely to do prior to establishing your bucket list," e.g. you might have always wanted to go to Hawaii but constantly procrastinated on it and/or constantly told yourself you don't have the money.

Comment author: magfrump 05 March 2013 05:57:34PM 0 points [-]

Say I want to go to Hawaii, I plan to go to Hawaii over the summer, but if I don't write it down there's a 10% chance I'll forget to get tickets at the right time and it will be too expensive.

I'm 90% likely to go to Hawaii, but I would still think it appropriate to put it on a to do list, and raise the probability to 99%.

My phrasing above was unclear, though. What I meant was, one could put "go to Hawaii" on one's bucket list even if one already planned to go to Hawaii for one's next vacation.