thomblake comments on Hygienic Anecdotes - Less Wrong

10 Post author: badger 29 March 2009 05:46AM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 April 2009 08:49:16PM 1 point [-]

I say just post it, and if you're wrong then there will be plenty of industrious people to come up with counterexamples. When I remember something interesting, I can usually just post what I remember, and someone else will quickly come up with the correct source. Virginia Postrel calls this relying on local, distributed knowledge - it's what markets do well, including the marketplace of ideas.