Viliam_Bur comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 08 March 2013 10:10:15AM 0 points [-]

Then I agree. I just didn't see that word used in your response, so I misunderstood it to be without time limits.

(By the way, most people seem to use the word "young" meaning "age <= my_age" or later "age < my_age". Just ask a teenager whether twenties is young or old. Then ask a 50 years old person whether thirties were young or old. So an advice based on "while you are young" has very high potential to be misunderstood.)

Comment author: [deleted] 08 March 2013 12:58:45PM 0 points [-]

Then I agree. I just didn't see that word used in your response, so I misunderstood it to be without time limits.

(That was what the “for small n at least” part was for.)