MrHen comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrHen 09 January 2010 12:23:04AM *  3 points [-]

A soft reminder to always be looking for logical fallacies: This quote was smushed into an opinion piece about OpenGL:

Blizzard always releases Mac versions of their games simultaneously, and they're one of the most successful game companies in the world! If they're doing something in a different way from everyone else, then their way is probably right.

Oops.

Comment author: MrHen 22 January 2010 03:04:53PM 2 points [-]

It really does surprise me how often people do things like this.

“I guess it’s just a genetic flaw in humans,” said Amichai Shulman, the chief technology officer at Imperva, which makes software for blocking hackers. “We’ve been following the same patterns since the 1990s.”

This is a quote from someone being interviewed about bad but common passwords. Would this be labeled a semantic stopsign, or a fake explanation, or ...?

Comment author: RobinZ 22 January 2010 03:45:44PM 2 points [-]

Fake explanation - he noticed a pattern and picked something which can cause that kind of pattern, without checking if it would cause that pattern.

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