See Paul Graham on Robert Morris. I also remember a blog post (discussed on LW) that I thought was called “stop making stupid mistakes”, which wasn’t this one, but instead was about someone who was okay at chess talking to a friend that was good at chess about how to get better, and getting the unpalatable lesson that it wasn’t about learning cool new tricks, but slowly ironing out all of the mistakes that he’s currently making.
Also Dan Luu’s essay 95%-ile isn’t that good, where he claims that even 95th-percentile Overwatch players routinely make silly mistakes, suggesting that you can get to that level by not making mistakes.
Back in the day, I was a 50th percentile player. I spent a couple hours watching a 99th percentile streamer, and then just tried to play like them. I thought, what would MoonMoon do, and then i would do that. I won the next 19 games, ending up in the 97th percentile. I stayed there.
Even so, I’d review my gameplay videos and be stunned by how many stupid mistakes I still made, even at this “high level” of play.
See Paul Graham on Robert Morris. I also remember a blog post (discussed on LW) that I thought was called “stop making stupid mistakes”, which wasn’t this one, but instead was about someone who was okay at chess talking to a friend that was good at chess about how to get better, and getting the unpalatable lesson that it wasn’t about learning cool new tricks, but slowly ironing out all of the mistakes that he’s currently making.
Also Dan Luu’s essay 95%-ile isn’t that good, where he claims that even 95th-percentile Overwatch players routinely make silly mistakes, suggesting that you can get to that level by not making mistakes.
Back in the day, I was a 50th percentile player. I spent a couple hours watching a 99th percentile streamer, and then just tried to play like them. I thought, what would MoonMoon do, and then i would do that. I won the next 19 games, ending up in the 97th percentile. I stayed there.
Even so, I’d review my gameplay videos and be stunned by how many stupid mistakes I still made, even at this “high level” of play.