hairyfigment comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 06 July 2012 01:10:57AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure how it is related to my point that negative selection is not a total disaster.

What would look different if it were? (Aside from, say, the reduced chance of someone finding the Higgs.)

Comment author: shminux 06 July 2012 03:09:30AM 0 points [-]

Then I would expect that once in a while some filtered out genius discovers something really exciting, against all odds, as I mentioned already.

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