orthonormal comments on Open Thread: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 15 February 2010 12:51:31AM 2 points [-]

I second Kevin: the nearest analogy that occurs to me is playing "kick the landmine" when the landmine is almost surely a dud.

Comment author: JGWeissman 15 February 2010 01:39:32AM 2 points [-]

Of course, the advantage of "kick the landmine" is that you don't take the rest of the world out in case it wasn't a dud.