handoflixue comments on Do people think Less Wrong rationality is parochial? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: handoflixue 08 May 2012 11:31:27PM 1 point [-]

so you consider those answers correct?

I also have a decent respect for people who seem to routinely produce correct answers via faulty reasoning.

I assume you're refer to that?

A correct ANSWER is different from a correct METHOD. I treat an answer as correct if I can verify it.

Problem: X^2 = 9 Solution X=3

It doesn't matter how they arrived at "X=3", it's still correct, and I can verify that (3^2 = 9, yep!)