DSimon comments on Rationality Quotes December 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 04 December 2012 07:27:55PM 4 points [-]

Facts, in the aggregate, have half-lives: we can measure the amount of time for half of a subject's knowledge to be overturned.

The tricky part there is figuring out which half.