Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Good luck, Mr. Rationalist - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 April 2013 06:44PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Tags: luck fun random

Comments (75)

Sort By: Best

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 07:01:55PM * 7 points [-]

"From where you are standing, work hard and you will get where you want to be"

For a rationalist? It's an empirical claim that might be false. That's bad luck.