rwallace comments on Cookies vs Existential Risk - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 02 September 2009 11:47:44AM 0 points [-]

Because it has empirically turned out not to be. Reversed stupidity is not intelligence, but it is avoidance of stupidity. When we know a particular source gives wrong answers, that doesn't tell us the right answers, but it does tell us what to avoid.