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

21 Post author: jschulter 15 July 2011 08:39AM

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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.