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TuringTestyesterday at 9:50 PM1 replyview on HN

But both are doing the winning thing, which is more valuable than just the battle thing. Unless you do it just for fun and don't mind the result.


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munificentyesterday at 10:34 PM

I don't know anything about planning and battle.

But as a metaphor for other creative pursuits, my experience is that most of the time when people are "planning" or working on other things that they like to believe will help them do the thing... they are really just avoiding doing the thing.

People spend years doing "world-building" and writing character backgrounds and never write the damn book. Aspiring musicians spend thousands collecting instruments and never make a song.

As you say, if it's just for fun, that's all fine. But if the satisfaction you want comes from the result of the thing, you have to do the thing.