JamesCole comments on Expected futility for humans - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesCole 10 June 2009 12:19:01AM 1 point [-]

Rich enough that, if you're going to make these sorts of calculations, you'll get reasonable results (rather than misleading or wildly misleading ones).

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 June 2009 12:40:31AM 0 points [-]

The catch is of course that your reply is in itself a statement of the form that you declared useless (misleading/wildly misleading - how do you know that?).

Comment author: JamesCole 10 June 2009 01:21:05AM *  0 points [-]

I think there's some misunderstanding here. I said don't assume. If you have some reason to think what you're doing is reasonable or ok, then you're not assuming.