Nick_Tarleton comments on Trying to Try - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 October 2008 08:58AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 02 October 2008 12:28:02AM 0 points [-]

You're confusing "going to" as a prediction and "going to" as a statement of intent.

Thanks for bringing this up. My comment above can be read as basically complaining about this double meaning.

Reminds me of the importance of overconfidence to business success, somehow....