wadavis comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wadavis 09 December 2014 02:59:13PM 3 points [-]

I enjoyed this quote, and have had a great number of self depreciating laughs with other young professionals about how we were totally winging it.

But it is not true.

There are those winging it, but they are faking it until they make it, and make up a smaller group than represented above. The much larger group is made from a rainbow of wrong! Biases, ignorance, bad information, misinformation, conflicting agendas, the list goes on.

The group of people just winging it, pushing their limits, faking it until they make it, are only piece of the bigger picture of stuff done wrong. It is not fair to overrepresent their influence. Although, it is always a comfort to know there are others out their in the same boat, just winging it.