Zvi comments on But Somebody Would Have Noticed - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: Zvi 05 May 2010 08:13:55PM -1 points [-]

I actually will site this using Matilda's wording of "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it" as Trunchbell's Law, both in terms of conventional actions and when taking Refuse in Audacity, but in my experience once the momentary shock wears off thecurve of people using this heuristic doesn't goes up fast enough to make up for the massive amount of noticing.