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Comment author: MichaelVassar 10 January 2010 04:32:24AM *  8 points [-]

I certainly do. It's my strong impression that so does almost everyone outside of the Less Wrong community and a majority of people in this community, so according to the outside view of majoritarianism I'm probably right.

Taleb's "The Black Swan" is basically a treatise on failures from uses of the outside view.

Comment author: Unknowns 10 January 2010 06:20:11AM 1 point [-]

Of course there are a lot of failures from uses of the outside view. That is to be expected. The problem is that there are a lot more failures from uses of the inside view.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 12 January 2010 01:59:18AM 0 points [-]

Citation needed (for the general case).