ShardPhoenix comments on Interlude for Behavioral Economics - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Yvain 06 July 2012 08:12PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 07 July 2012 04:42:15AM 2 points [-]

I think he means that many elegant, simple hypothesis have obscure counterexamples, not that the Machiguenga Indians are typically one of those counterexamples.

Comment author: DaFranker 07 July 2012 05:15:15AM *  0 points [-]

Is there not already a past sequence/post dealing with the creation of such ambiguities when there are multiple plausible implicit statements inferable from an inexact syntactical construction? I thought I saw something along those lines somewhere yesterday, but I can't seem to find it by just retracing my steps.

Comment author: shokwave 07 July 2012 08:30:32AM 0 points [-]

I genuinely can't tell if this is intentional.