Gunnar_Zarncke comments on What Would You Do If You Only Had Six Months To Live? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 May 2015 10:45:41AM 1 point [-]

My dad was kind of telling me similar things when I was 15 but I brushed them off I said "I am an intellectual, [...] Then I figured it around 35.

But then he did tell/teach you. And all the context and real life experience was necessary. It wouldn't help to just read it.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 May 2015 11:05:15AM 1 point [-]

Sure but at 35 I could now read it and see his bio how he interpreted it and how he figured it out and how used it.