Note: survivorship bias warning. We don’t know how many counterfactual lsusr clones died or were permanently disabled after pushing too hard.
Note 2: privilege bias warning. Lsusr doesn’t mention how much of a financial and social safety net he had, but given he had a failed startup and tried again implies way more Maslow level 0-2 stability than most people.
Note 3: Just because you achieved your goal through hard work and dedication doesn’t mean it was worth it in the end. This is what they don’t tell you in self-help books.
“We don’t know how many counterfactual lsusr clones died or were permanently disabled after pushing too hard.”
This is not only a clever and concise way of putting this thought, but putting it concisely and cleverly really helped to crystallize it in my brain, whereas before, it was amorphous.
Moody always told them to survive a hundred years of hunting Dark Wizards and then get back to him about that.
Mad-Eye Moody had once worked out how long it had taken him, in retrospect, to achieve what he now considered a decent level of caution—weighed up how much experience it had taken him to get good instead of lucky—and had begun to suspect that most people died before they got there. Moody had once expressed this thought to Lyall, who had done some ciphering and figuring, and told him that a typical Dark Wizard hunter would die, on average, eight and a half times along the way to becoming ‘paranoid’. This explained a great deal, assuming Lyall wasn’t lying.
―Chapter 63 of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Note: survivorship bias warning. We don’t know how many counterfactual lsusr clones died or were permanently disabled after pushing too hard.
Note 2: privilege bias warning. Lsusr doesn’t mention how much of a financial and social safety net he had, but given he had a failed startup and tried again implies way more Maslow level 0-2 stability than most people.
Note 3: Just because you achieved your goal through hard work and dedication doesn’t mean it was worth it in the end. This is what they don’t tell you in self-help books.
“We don’t know how many counterfactual lsusr clones died or were permanently disabled after pushing too hard.”
This is not only a clever and concise way of putting this thought, but putting it concisely and cleverly really helped to crystallize it in my brain, whereas before, it was amorphous.