stcredzero comments on Epistemic Viciousness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: stcredzero 14 June 2011 07:49:23PM 6 points [-]

There will be a correlation between the effectiveness of a fighting technique and success in battles but it is not a simple one. You will end up identifying the technique that is optimal for the most physically capable combatants, not the optimal fighting technique in general.

I wonder if there's something like this at work in programming?