Strange7 comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong

259 Post author: Yvain 28 April 2009 10:00PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 29 April 2009 06:44:00AM 9 points [-]

Cooking's a great place to talk about where to add, where to multiply, where to pay attention to ratios, and above all where to pay attention to diminishing marginal utility of returns to X. These are core rationalist skills that haven't been adequately discussed.

Comment author: Strange7 06 April 2010 06:58:50PM 2 points [-]

It's also something that anyone who eats could relate to, and want to be less wrong about. http://xkcd.com/720/

Comment author: taryneast 25 July 2011 11:53:26AM 0 points [-]

Or this famous dilbert strip