You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Rationalist Lent - Less Wrong Discussion

44 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 February 2013 06:32AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (81)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 February 2013 05:21:34PM *  5 points [-]

This is likely to be a poorly-controlled experiment, isn't it?

Sure. But I think it's easy to come up with lots of reasons like this not to try new things, with the end result being that you never try new things. Bad times. So, at least in my own life, I'm trying to implement a general policy of erring on the side of trying new things, and I'll cross the bad-methodology bridge once I get to it.