Yeah. I think there’s a broader phenomenon where it’s way harder to learn from other people’s mistakes than from your own. E.g. see my first bullet point on being too attached to a cool idea. Obviously, I knew in theory that this was a common failure mode (from the Sequences/LW and from common research advice), and someone even told me I might be making the mistake in this specific instance. But my experience up until that point had been that most of the research ideas I’d been similarly excited about ended up ~working (or at least the ones I put serious time into).
Yeah. I think there’s a broader phenomenon where it’s way harder to learn from other people’s mistakes than from your own. E.g. see my first bullet point on being too attached to a cool idea. Obviously, I knew in theory that this was a common failure mode (from the Sequences/LW and from common research advice), and someone even told me I might be making the mistake in this specific instance. But my experience up until that point had been that most of the research ideas I’d been similarly excited about ended up ~working (or at least the ones I put serious time into).