Perplexed comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

6 Post author: PhilGoetz 14 October 2009 04:52PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (93)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Perplexed 13 October 2010 04:45:27PM 3 points [-]

The idea that pace of discovery slowed down is an extremely common and really obvious fallacy.

The idea can't be a fallacy. What you mean is that the usual argument for this idea contains an obvious fallacy.

It is an important distinction because reversed stupidity is not intelligence. Identifying the fallacy doesn't prove that the pace of discovery has not slowed.