army1987 comments on Contests vs. Real World Problems - Less Wrong

15 Post author: badger 25 March 2009 01:29AM

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Comment author: gwern 25 March 2009 03:33:18PM 2 points [-]

Ad hominems. We are so well schooled in 'traditional' deductive rationality that we instinctively shy away from using this strategy, even though it's quite powerful and often we're using it in practice anyway.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 April 2012 04:03:19PM *  0 points [-]

Well...

Comment author: gwern 17 April 2012 05:06:01PM 0 points [-]

I don't think that post disagrees with me.