Epiphany comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Epiphany 05 November 2012 07:14:09AM 3 points [-]
Comment author: matsn 08 November 2012 12:16:17PM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure what you mean to imply with your comment, but since someone had downvoted lukeprog's quote, I guess at least that person might have taken it to undermine Mencken's words. However, all Mencken is saying is that

p(easy,neat,plausible,wrong) > 0

which in no way contradicts

p(easy,neat,plausible,right) > 0.

Of course the essence of the quote is that a solution's being easy, neat and plausible doesn't imply it's right which often seems to be forgotten in public discourse.