Anubhav comments on Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 February 2012 09:32:48AM 1 point [-]

Anyone want to come up with a theory about why not bothering to get things right was optimal in the ancestral environment?

Comment author: Anubhav 05 February 2012 10:34:00AM 0 points [-]

Anyone want to come up with a theory about why not bothering to get things right was optimal in the ancestral environment?

Isn't sloppy science just a special case of the effect Eliezer described here?

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