Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Two Truths and a Lie - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Psychohistorian 23 December 2009 06:34AM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 23 December 2009 05:45:28PM 2 points [-]

I expect that, in practice, the theory holders will demure to offer answers. They will instead say, "Those aren't the kinds of questions that my theory is designed to answer. My theory answers questions like . . . ". They will then suggest questions that are either vague, impossible to answer empirically, or whose answers they know.

That's my theory, and I'm sticken' to it :).

Comment author: SilasBarta 24 December 2009 02:07:05AM 1 point [-]

Well, at least you know you can start ignoring them if they say that ...