Will_Newsome comments on Rationality Quotes March 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 March 2012 01:51:57AM 8 points [-]

(Perhaps this individual quote is insightful (I can't tell), but this sort of causal analysis leads to basic confusions of levels of organization more often than it leads to insight.)

Comment author: michaelcurzi 27 March 2012 02:47:24PM 0 points [-]

Can you give an example of how that leads to confusions about levels of organization?