pragmatist comments on Hangman as analogy for Natural Selection - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Delta 05 October 2012 12:02PM

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Comment author: pragmatist 19 November 2013 05:37:47PM *  1 point [-]

Wait, did you interpret my comment as supporting the "irreducible complexity" argument? My whole point was that it is a bad argument. I was criticizing the Hangman analogy because it seems to invite the same sort of mistake that the "irreducible complexity" people make.

Comment author: jockocampbell 20 November 2013 11:59:21PM 1 point [-]

Yes on re-reading I see what you are saying.