ciphergoth comments on Advancing Certainty - Less Wrong

34 Post author: komponisto 18 January 2010 09:51AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 18 January 2010 10:18:12PM 1 point [-]

Presumably you're imagining something like a year-old calculator, solar powered and in bright light, reported in good working order and tested on a few problems with known answers, doing aritmetic on integers less than 10,000 in magnitude. Just to close as many of the doors as possible...

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 January 2010 01:02:36AM *  1 point [-]

Just to close as many of the doors as possible...

Shouldn't have to do that here.

Comment author: bogdanb 20 January 2010 04:21:21PM 2 points [-]

That's a technique useful when arguing against an idea.

CronoDAS' comment contained just a question; it's not obvious to me what the “idea” is we should be arguing against.