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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on You only need faith in two things - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2013 11:45PM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 13 March 2013 08:08:47PM 0 points [-]

If you have a method of understanding the world that works for all problems, I would love to hear it.

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 March 2013 08:55:09PM 0 points [-]

If you have a method of understanding the world that works for all problems, I would love to hear it.

Acknowledging that you can't solve them?

Comment author: evand 14 March 2013 02:11:49AM 3 points [-]

In what sense does that "work"?

Being able to predict the results of giving up on a problem does not imply that giving up is superior to tackling a problem that I don't know I'll be able to solve.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 14 March 2013 01:14:12AM 1 point [-]

How do you know which ones are the ones you can't solve?

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