Vaniver comments on Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 15 July 2011 09:05:53PM 0 points [-]

Want to alieve that boxing is dangerous? Watch some footage of boxers being punched painfully in the face, and ask a good boxer to win a fight against you in a painful but non-damaging manner. Now are you reluctant to box someone you have a good chance of beating?

I don't avoid boxing because pain is unpleasant. I avoid boxing because it's not worth the brain damage.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 15 July 2011 11:49:06PM 1 point [-]

Sure. But you can easily believe rapidly accelerated/rotated skull -> brain damage, and there are plenty of famously dead or brain-damaged boxers (or NFL players) from brain-rattling. The idea is to anticipate taking many blows if you ever do fight someone, even if you're better.

Comment author: Vaniver 16 July 2011 06:08:55PM 0 points [-]

I misunderstood the word "alieve," parsing it as "relieve," and so the message I thought I was replying to was not the intended one.

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