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polymathwannabe comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 12 August 2015 03:11:08PM 0 points [-]

Achieving something great may require your confidence in its possibility, but the reasonableness of that confidence is only discovered in hindsight. It's not uncommon to stumble upon a true belief while having begun with wrong evidence.