fwiw I don’t think I’ve heard this particular heuristic from LessWrong. Do you have a link for a place this seemed implied?
I think there’s a particular warning flag about “selection effects from successes” (i.e. sometimes a person who succeeded just did so through luck). So, like, watch out for that. But I remember hearing a generalized thing about learning more from failure than from success.
fwiw I don’t think I’ve heard this particular heuristic from LessWrong. Do you have a link for a place this seemed implied?
I think there’s a particular warning flag about “selection effects from successes” (i.e. sometimes a person who succeeded just did so through luck). So, like, watch out for that. But I remember hearing a generalized thing about learning more from failure than from success.
I added link to comment: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34Tu4SCK5r5Asdrn3/unteachable-excellence