Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (305)

Sort By: Best

Show:

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Bugmaster 30 September 2011 09:17:58PM * 2 points [-]

I would explain it as a spontaneous remission followed by the post hoc fallacy.

Edit: assuming, of course, that the tumor was actually gone, as DSimon points out.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 September 2011 09:26:29PM 4 points [-]

I would explain it as a spontaneous remission followed by the post hoc fallacy.

Surely you mean, causing post hoc fallacy?

Comment author: Bugmaster 30 September 2011 10:07:01PM 1 point [-]

If I do that, I may be in danger of committing the post hoc fallacy :-)

Comment author: dlthomas 30 September 2011 10:18:37PM 0 points [-]

That was the joke...

Comment author: Bugmaster 30 September 2011 10:52:07PM 1 point [-]

Indeed.