sixes_and_sevens comments on A sense of logic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 13 December 2010 02:10:51PM 19 points [-]

You know those puzzles you get on the back of cereal packets, where there's a big spaghetti-mess of lines, and you have to help the monkey by finding which line leads to the banana?

Up to a certain level of complexity I can usually look at one of those once, and immediately identify the appropriate line. Bad logic feels like being presented with one of those puzzles, only there is somehow no route to the banana. I can tell, on sight, that there's no route to the banana. There's some sort of holistic wrongness about the puzzle, and it really distresses me that the monkey can't get to the banana!

Comment author: Alicorn 13 December 2010 02:14:34PM 31 points [-]

no route to the banana

I submit that this should be the new code phrase for broken logic.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 13 December 2010 02:21:50PM 5 points [-]

I often want to shout something to that effect at people.