Cyan comments on Three consistent positions for computationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 14 April 2011 10:29:31PM *  1 point [-]

Or, to put it another way, failure to offer a coherent refutation of an incoherent hypothesis doesn't represent evidence for incoherence hypothesis.

Could you edit this? I can't decipher it.

[eta: Cyan and Pavitra have come up with nice obviously-true statements that are textually similar to the original bungled sentence and similar in meaning, but I can't be sure of what you meant.]

Comment author: Cyan 14 April 2011 11:13:48PM 2 points [-]

How about, "If I offer a not-even-wrong refutation of your not-even-wrong hypothesis, you can't take the not-even-wrongness of the refutation as evidence for the hypothesis."