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A comment on Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (2016). Parent comment

Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by whatshisface on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:10PM (#19579033)
If the author called it planning then everyone would realize that they had already heard of it...

People might also realize that with every additional step of reasoning the chance that you got it right decays exponentially.

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Re:Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperfor... by mStreamTeam on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:17AM (#19579915)
That's why people make multiple plans and backup plans
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