lessdazed comments on Open thread, October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 17 October 2011 04:10:18PM 3 points [-]

One (more) reason to be uncomfortable with such an argument: "black" doesn't carve nature at its joints.

(Whereas, relevantly for such arguments, "poor" does - though I believe that arguing that way leads down the path that has been called "reference class tennis".)

Comment author: lessdazed 17 October 2011 11:22:40PM 0 points [-]

That's not too important. If I go to my closet and pull out twenty items of clothing at random, and designate those group A, and designate the rest group B, if I know what is in each group I can still make predictions about traits of random members of either group.