jimrandomh comments on Formalization is a rationality technique - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 07 March 2009 02:45:24AM 4 points [-]

If the arguments are chained together, then this is true, but the original poster was talking about independent lines of reasoning leading to the same conclusion. For arguments which are truly independent, then his formulation is correct.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 March 2009 04:59:33AM 2 points [-]

Alrighty, I gotcha.