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mushroom comments on Group Rationality Diary, November 1-15 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: therufs 01 November 2013 08:37PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 November 2013 01:58:50AM 4 points [-]

I've noticed that the people most available to try an activity with will often be bad choices for a beginner to accompany, because they're selected for being too intense. This seems particularly common with outdoors activities.

I don't know if this is relevant to your experience.

Comment author: Ben_LandauTaylor 03 November 2013 06:12:12AM 1 point [-]

Not in this case. We had a couple experienced people and many novices.