You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

lifelonglearner comments on "Why Try Hard" Essay targeted at non rationalists - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: lifelonglearner 24 January 2016 04:40PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (20)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: lifelonglearner 29 January 2016 06:16:29PM 0 points [-]

Thanks! I hope to connect with CFAR later this year, so ideally I'd be able to learn more about good planning. The bit about avoiding past failures is something I haven't appreciated until recently; I used to think that I had to learn everything the hard way (first-hand).