On: A profile of Geoffrey Hinton (2018)

[jbay808]

We call this "skating to where the puck is going to be".

[kiterunner2346 → jbay808]

I call it "doing the same thing over and over again, hoping someday you get lucky." I think there's a commonly-used expression for that behavior.

Hinton got lucky: something he had nothing to do with changed, making him look like a stoic hero.

A winning strategy or just a lazy path?