gwern comments on Use the Try Harder, Luke - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 20 July 2014 01:49:51PM 2 points [-]

the moral of the story becomes significantly less helpful: "If you're having trouble, spend an arbitrarily large amount of time working on the problem."

I don't think that's what it becomes. It remains what it was: 'a solution exists, and oddly enough, reminding yourself of this is useful'.