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Trying to Try - LessWrong

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> "No!  Try not!  Do, or do not.  There is no try." >         —Yoda …

x Trying to Try — LessWrong Challenging the Difficult Heroic Responsibility Heuristics & Biases Map and Territory Planning & Decision-Making Frontpage 237 Trying to Try by Eliezer Yudkowsky 1st Oct 2008 4 min read 58 237 "No! Try not! Do, or do not. There is no try." — Yoda Years ago, I thought this was yet another example of Deep Wisdom that is actually quite stupid. SUCCEED is not a primitive action. You can't just decide to win by choosing hard enough. There is never a plan that works with probability 1 . But Yoda was wiser than I first realized. The first elementary technique of epistemolo

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