Nobody *wants* to look foolish or play to weaknesses. But a key difference between critics and doers appears to be that critics want to look good playing to strengths, while doers tolerate looking foolish in service of leveraging unexpected opportunities/unfair advantages.
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#mediocrity slouches in again. This choice is acknowledgment of the fact that environmental leverage generally beats personal exceptionalism, since most of us, by definition, are not particularly exceptional.Show this thread
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Some days I feel like I lean into this wisdom a little too willingly.
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This is how I console myself
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A very good heuristic for decision making and kind of similar to what I came up with after reading TLP. If the only downside to a decision is that it might make you look foolish (and there are no other significant costs like financial, harm to others etc.), go w/ that choice.
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... Brb, I need to get this tattooed somewhere easy to read on my person
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This might be the strongest argument for what
@nntaleb was saying about IQ being BS. Some people inherently have broadly diminished concern about their foolishness and that might be good for population. This sort of explains why I'm not very good at working on physical systems.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yup. I think of it as being a tactical dumbasshttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1088347054974201858?s=21 …
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