Try Things

To the knowledge of one editor of this article, the phrase was introduced theto the LessWrong community by CFAR, at least as early as 2016.

Try Things is a mantra that reminds you to gather data about what works by experimentation. If a proposed intervention works and you learn that it works, you've just gained something that you'll be able to use over and over again. If it doesn't work, you've only had it not work once.

To the knowledge of one editor of this article, the phrase was introduced the the LessWrong community by CFAR, at least as early as 2016.

See also: Value of Information

Applied to CoZE 2 by Raymond Arnold 4y ago
Applied to Go Try Things by Raymond Arnold 4y ago
Applied to Go Try Things by Raymond Arnold 4y ago
Created by Raymond Arnold at 4y