orthonormal comments on Examples of the Mind Projection Fallacy? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 15 December 2011 07:06:18PM 2 points [-]

The whole 2012 mythos is an example: the idea that a dead pre-technological civilization had a unique ability to forecast the coming apocalypse strikes me as an obvious case of the...

(puts on sunglasses)

...Mayan Projection Fallacy.