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The Ego Dilemma (bumblebeelabs.com)
7 points by shalmanese on Aug 4, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Feynman solved the Ego Dilemma. It's somewhere in his letters which got published recently, and goes along the lines of "I'm stupid, but it's okay, the process is gonna be fun!" Also "I feel like a monkey trying to get that banana." which might be more familiar.


A little bit of a tease:

  Unfortunately, the right way to deal with the ego dilemma 
  is tricky and complex and deserves an entire post of it’s 
  own. It really involves revamping your entire belief 
  structure into something deeply probabilistic with a much 
  finer and more nuanced representation of ignorance which 
  I promise to write at a later date when I’ve fully 
  processed what I’m actually doing.
But still, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself is always good advice.


This is why I don't hang with drunks. :)




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