PG 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 l

PG 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