I don’t think it’s an inverse! The first one is saying you might not succeed in killing the person you’re trying to kill and the second one is saying you might instead kill someone else that you don’t want to kill! They’re two properties of the same worst-case scenario. =]
Where is this from? I looked it up to see if the weird grammar was intended and couldn’t find anything.
It’s … ahem … non-canon. A different faction.
I thought it interesting that the near-inverse of a useful rationality quote can still be a useful rationality quote.
I don’t think it’s an inverse! The first one is saying you might not succeed in killing the person you’re trying to kill and the second one is saying you might instead kill someone else that you don’t want to kill! They’re two properties of the same worst-case scenario. =]
I understood the second one as saying that that blind idiot with the knife might end up killing you, not necessarily intentionally, so be careful.
But also, if you’re being a blind idiot waving your knife around, you could kill someone! So stop that. =]