Trying to Try - LessWrong
lesswrong.com · 9,551 words · saved by 17 readers
> "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
saved by
- Emily Hu
- James Rogers
- Jaclyn
- Justin Wang
- Grace Nguyen
- Jake Page
- Freeman Jiang
- Eli Qian
- Vardnan Sivarajah
- Jacky Huang
- Fobi Boateng
- Aaron Pham
related reading
- Stop trying to try and trymindingourway.com
- There is no try — LessWronglesswrong.com
- There is no try — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Pain is not the unit of Effort — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Stop trying to try and try — LessWronglesswrong.com
- There is no trymindingourway.com
- Half-assing it with everything you've gotmindingourway.com
- So you wanna de-bog yourself - by Adam Mastroianniexperimental-history.com
- Certain ways that “try harder” can be a bad strategysashachapin.substack.com
- Dive inmindingourway.com
- Certain ways that “try harder” can be a bad strategysashachapin.substack.com
- Pain is not the unit of Effort | Radimentaryradimentary.wordpress.com