Hedging your bets

“What you actually end up doing screens off the clever reason why you’re doing it. Contrast amazing clever reasoning that leads you to study many sciences, to amazing clever reasoning that says you don’t need to read all those books. Afterward, when your amazing clever reasoning turns out to have been stupid, you’ll have ended up in a much better position if your amazing clever reasoning was of the first type. When I look back upon my past, I am struck by the number of semi-accidental successes, the number of times I did something right for the wrong reason.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)

This is really just Hedging your bets

“What you actually end up doing screens off the clever reason why you’re doing it. Contrast amazing clever reasoning that leads you to study many sciences, to amazing clever reasoning that says you don’t need to read all those books. Afterward, when your amazing clever reasoning turns out to have been stupid, you’ll have ended up in a much better position if your amazing clever reasoning was of the first type. When I look back upon my past, I am struck by the number of semi-accidental successes, the number of times I did something right for the wrong reason.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)

This is really just Hedging your bets