10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You

Re:10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You by Eliezer on Thursday August 28, 2008 @08:38PM (#289646)

there will always be someone smarter, better looking, richer, and with a bigger ____ than you

Oh, come on, nazgulnarsil, where's your spirit? You can do it!

Bart: You make me sick, Homer. You're the one who told me I could do anything if I just put my mind to it!

Homer: Well, now that you're a little bit older, I can tell you that's a crock! No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.

Bart: Gotcha. Can't win, don't try.

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Re:10 Things Millionaires Won't Tell You by nazgulnarsil on Friday August 29, 2008 @12:12AM (#289798)

my extreme pragmatism depresses most people. I always hear hope for the best but plan for the worst and I think it is unnecessarily pessimistic. Hope for the best, plan for the averages, have a backup plan for the worst.

But the bottom line is that we're already incredibly wealthy by historical standards. I am in the bottom quintile by income in the U.S. (poor college student) and yet i enjoy a standard of living that is probably in the top 1% of all humans who've ever lived.

P.S. assuming you are Mr. Yudkowsky your posts at overcoming bias singlehandedly turned me from an empiricist into a rationalist.

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