fburnaby comments on Mathematical simplicity bias and exponential functions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fburnaby 27 August 2009 01:28:06AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: MendelSchmiedekamp 27 August 2009 05:44:42PM 0 points [-]

No. The Medawar zone is more about scientific discoveries as marketable products to the scientific community, not the cultural and cognitive pressures of those communities which affect how those products are used as they become adopted.

Different phenomena, although there are almost certainly common causes.