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Four legs good, two legs bad. Or the other way round.

• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  I don't think the points on this comment should be negative. To expand - the message I take from it is that it's easy to mouth platitudes (and indeed, "mouth platitudes" is a platitude that I've just mouthed) but in some cases they just don't apply. The big game business cannot work on the basis of "Fail early. Fail often." and to trot out that aphorism smacks of cargo-cult thinking. Such phrases as "Fail early. Fail often." are to be regarded as starting points, something to consider, not as implacable, infallible advice. Unfortunately all too often it is taken as such. My advice - to be taken with a pinch of salt - is that everytime you hear a well-worn phrase, stop. Is it really applicable in this context? That's the message I get from "Four legs good, two legs bad." Probably you'd get the same message if you stopped and thought about it. In this forum, it's a shame if you didn't.
  • RevRal 17y ago
    Some comments are victims of drive-by downvotes, and it is annoying. I see this problem a lot with nested comments, where people fail to read the comment within the context of the parent. I would really like to see more people explaining their downvotes. Maybe, through this, they'd figure out the source of the quote and its point would be brought into better focus.
  • jodrellblank 17y ago
    http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/