PhilGoetz comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: conchis 05 April 2009 05:19:11PM *  1 point [-]

I don't think introducing these distinctions one at a time would give you any additional useful concepts.

Then there are a lot of economists (and psychologists) who disagree with you, and routinely use these concepts you don't think are useful for apparently useful purposes.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 May 2011 06:19:19PM 0 points [-]

I was a little careless; and you are taking my statement out of context and overgeneralizing it. These two distinctions are both needed to find the answer I am proposing. They can be used successfully in other context, or probably within the same context to address different questions.