CuSithBell comments on SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 May 2012 03:57PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 May 2012 06:39:00PM 1 point [-]

I don't know either, but I observe that an upside down W resembles a segment of a conditional tree with two points at the top and either three or four at the bottom, which sounds similar to what the OP is describing.

Comment author: CuSithBell 27 May 2012 12:38:46AM 3 points [-]

I don't know either, but I observe that an upside down W resembles

... an M...?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 27 May 2012 02:50:44AM 4 points [-]

Why yes! Also a sigma on it's side.

Comment author: tgb 29 May 2012 02:41:49AM 2 points [-]

I found the above two comments particularly funny because I had just spent the last couple minutes reading this with the vague feeling that "an upside-down W" would be better described as some other letter but I had been continuously procrastinating actually figuring out what that letter was.