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Luck is like time travel. Once you've done such an analysis, luck moves on to represent all those factors that you didn't take into account. That's what the wor
by thedanfilter 14y ago
Luck is like time travel.
Once you've done such an analysis, luck moves on to represent all those factors that you didn't take into account.
That's what the word means.
- 001sky 14y agoPG has a good quote, how ignorance can be useful when it keeps you from making other, bigger mistakes.[1] I think this is worth keeping in mind. Does ignoring luck [2] make you better off? Its not clear ignorance is the only strategy. ______________ [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html; see also [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightian_uncertainty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightian_uncertainty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process