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ChristianKl comments on Breaking the vicious cycle - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: XiXiDu 23 November 2014 06:25PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 24 November 2014 10:33:28AM 2 points [-]

On LW we have the habit to analyse details and have high standards for them. There are cases where that's valuable. In this case it makes more sense to look at the situation as a whole and see how a solution with beneficial for everyone involved looks like.

Look at the the decision tree and the results and then pick the node that goes in the right direction.