if you aren't overcorrecting, you're undercorrecting and only a series of overcorrections can actually get you to where you're going chronic undercorrections always miss
Why overcorrecting beats chronic undercorrection
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ofc, overcorrection can go off the rails if the new overcorrection is WORSE than the old one and undercorrection can eventually converge, but in the process, it has to "overcorrect" on a different level of abstraction, by passing the target altogether!
all solutions create new problems some solutions create WORSE problems some solutions end up creating *pareto* worse problems, ie situations that are not *in any way* better than the original situation
school trains this out of people by treating mistakes as something to be avoided rather than as a natural part of the learning process there are other approaches to learning!
reflecting on this a little more, the point is that insofar as you make an error, your future moves may need to cancel out the error in addition to adding whatever original progress would have been needed so you need to make errors in multiple directions, in some sense