RobinZ comments on The Most Frequently Useful Thing - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 February 2009 06:43PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 29 January 2010 12:21:00AM 1 point [-]

Or am I thinking of theories that are too complex? Are you thinking of X and Y as irreducible and mutually exclusive objects?

...yes? It's not a matter of complexity, though; the problem you might be alluding to is that the groups of theories we describe when we enunciate our thoughts can overlap.