Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Lonely Dissent - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 December 2007 04:23AM

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Comment author: dragonfiremalus 12 June 2015 04:37:24AM 0 points [-]

All throughout highschool I wanted to learn to play the guitar. But at that point in time almost everyone I knew was learning to play the guitar, and I sure wasn't going to do what everybody else did. Now, six years later, I'm finally learning. It's a real shame let my disgust of conformity drive me away from putting off something I now love.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 12 June 2015 04:58:45PM 2 points [-]

Actually not doing stuff there's already a glut of is not a terribly bad heuristic: for example, if in your area there are 1000 guitarist and 100 drummers it's much easier for you to get into a band if you play the drums than if you play the guitar.