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Khoth comments on Why don't more rationalists start startups? - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: adamzerner 20 January 2014 07:29AM

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Comment author: Khoth 20 January 2014 08:34:44AM *  14 points [-]

Inside view: "If I enumerate the things I think can make a startup fail and estimate probabilities, failure seems unlikely"

Outside view: "If I look at actual startups, empirically 90% of them fail, so failure is likely"