I wonder if nerdish literalism is a problem here. Saying “I will do X” when I can’t rationally assign a high probability to success feels like dishonest overconfidence—and if I fail, it’ll have been an outright lie.
I wonder if nerdish literalism is a problem here. Saying “I will do X” when I can’t rationally assign a high probability to success feels like dishonest overconfidence—and if I fail, it’ll have been an outright lie.