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NancyLebovitz comments on Don't rely on the system to guarantee you life satisfaction - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: JonahSinick 18 February 2014 05:48AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 February 2014 05:27:58PM 2 points [-]

There are certainly a lot of people who followed the standard advice about school, work, and home-buying, and ended up badly burnt.

I'm not sure what it would take to understand when a system is failing so that you should avoid being dependent on it, or what a good approach is to acquiring enough flexibility to do well in the face of large social changes.