Reading this 14 years later I can ask a question that I imagine allows a valuable answer.
(Although whether this kind of necroposting works or is endorsed on LW I don’t know.)
For me this is a key passage:
Pat: This notion, “that thought will predictably not have helped in retrospect if I succeed,” seems very strange to me. It helps precisely because we can avoiding wasting our effort on projects which are unlikely to succeed.
Stranger: Sounds very reasonable. All I can say in response is: try doing it my way for a day, and see what happens. No thoughts that predictably won’t have been helpful in retrospect, in the case that you succeed at whatever you’re currently trying to do. You might learn something from the experience.
Who trusted and tried this, ideally for rather longer than a single day, and what did they find?
Reading this 14 years later I can ask a question that I imagine allows a valuable answer.
(Although whether this kind of necroposting works or is endorsed on LW I don’t know.)
For me this is a key passage:
Pat: This notion, “that thought will predictably not have helped in retrospect if I succeed,” seems very strange to me. It helps precisely because we can avoiding wasting our effort on projects which are unlikely to succeed.
Stranger: Sounds very reasonable. All I can say in response is: try doing it my way for a day, and see what happens. No thoughts that predictably won’t have been helpful in retrospect, in the case that you succeed at whatever you’re currently trying to do. You might learn something from the experience.
Who trusted and tried this, ideally for rather longer than a single day, and what did they find?