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Scott Young - Ultralearning

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Is There Value in Getting the Whole Context Right?

i think the way i view sort of projects and learning projects in general, is that they all have to start with this. What does success look like? What is the outcome that i am trying to generate from this learning project? And analyzing things like this abstractly are hard, because if you're optimizing for a different goal, the answer might be different. I do think there are strategies that are more robust. So, like a strategy that works better if you have multiple goals. If you only want to pass your class, but you also want to be able to invent things, nd you have this sort of wider set of goals that you're considering. It's really hard to say

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