Douglas_Knight comments on The Featherless Biped - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Annoyance 02 September 2009 05:47PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 November 2009 05:43:36AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, but in this case Annoyance is right. You need to find two extensional mammals such that their last common ancestor is the LCA of everything you want to call a mammal, then the definition is complete. As it stands it's like a factorial without the base case.

In what way does your comment differ from Dan Armak's original comment? how is Annoyance right in this case?