CronoDAS comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2014 02:21:18PM 0 points [-]

Amtal (or Amtal Rule) – "Common rule on primitive worlds under which something is tested to determine its limits or defects. Commonly: testing to destruction."[3] "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. – The Amtal Rule."[6]

From here. Or as I just think of it, if you don't at least have a hard time sometimes, if not fail sometimes, you're not shooting high enough.

Comment author: CronoDAS 10 April 2014 04:23:50AM 1 point [-]

If I don't get a game over at least once, the game is too easy.

Comment author: gwern 02 May 2014 10:41:53PM 0 points [-]

Is that an Umeshism?

Comment author: CronoDAS 02 May 2014 11:35:57PM 0 points [-]

Almost, but not quite. "If you never get a game over, you're playing games that are too easy" would indeed be a Umeshism, but this is a complaint about easy games rather than a suggestion that I should be playing harder ones.

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