STL comments on What data generated that thought? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2011 02:01:00PM 7 points [-]

The "Black Belt Bayesian" website appears to have been hijacked into offering malware.

Michael Vassar once gave the example of a tribe of people who thought that faeries existed

Cute story; citation needed.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 26 April 2011 06:17:12PM *  5 points [-]

No idea about the tribe, but the rest sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_syndrome

Comment author: MichaelVassar 27 April 2011 10:13:57PM 1 point [-]

Yep, that plus some misremembered details in the post above.

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