Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

66 Post author: MBlume 25 April 2009 07:41AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 25 April 2009 08:07:01PM *  9 points [-]

Snopes says otherwise. Even if Snopes is mistaken, that kind of fluctuation could result from a power outage interfering with the responsible use of birth control. Can't find your pills in the dark? Don't want to go out when all the streetlights are off to run to the drugstore for condoms? Meh, don't let that stop you.

I think that individuals are probably very likely to have the wrong amount of sex, but it is my suspicion that on average we're doing okay.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 09:05:41PM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the correction. (Though I still disagree about the average part, but for this just see Vassar, Cowen et. al.)