orthonormal comments on The Aspirin Paradox- replacement for the Smoking Lesion Problem? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 16 November 2010 06:28:44PM 3 points [-]

Yeah, but that skill is adequately trained via hypothetical syllogisms (e.g. "if some animals are mammals and some mammals are primates, does it logically follow that some animals are primates?"), and that's not a good trick to mix in with decision theory problems which already confuse beginners.