Robin_Hanson2 comments on The Crackpot Offer - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2007 02:32PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 08 September 2007 05:50:52PM 9 points [-]

After the fact you could see you made a mistake. But the key question is: what were the clearest signals at the time, the sort of signals you had a chance to notice and recognize? What is the warning to others? Presumably it is not to give up after your first failure.