Bugmaster comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2010-2011) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Bugmaster 14 March 2012 09:36:17PM 0 points [-]

That doesn't necessarily mean fiction is likely to cause problems.

I guess it depends, in part, on how similar the knowledge you deem important is similar to works of fiction. To use a trivial example, I doubt that any work of fiction would cause me to forget what 2 + 2 is equal to.