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Clarity comments on How to learn a new area X that you have no idea about. - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Elo 18 August 2015 05:42AM

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Comment author: Clarity 21 August 2015 11:01:57AM *  0 points [-]

Say you're aiming to catch a bear. So you put out a a pile of fish. A crow eats one. Does that mean that bears don't like fish? No, and while you're thinking about that you might any bears going for the fish.

Comment author: Elo 22 August 2015 09:49:12AM 0 points [-]

Cryptic as that is; I understand; trouble is that the bears didn't eat many fish. So maybe these bears don't like the fish that I put out...