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lucianbrtoday at 4:07 PM1 replyview on HN

> But 10 years later somehow you don’t know quite know what problems are worth working on

How would someone notice this? It's not like they can run multiple 10-year experiments and notice a pattern.


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wongarsutoday at 4:10 PM

By observing multiple people who have done either thing for 10+ years.

Sure, there might be lots of confounding factors, and it might not be causation at all. That's why the quote is from a speech, not a paper

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