Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Burch's Law - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2007 02:39AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2007 04:48:05AM 1 point [-]

Robin: Yes, of course. The whole industry of pop psychoanalysis is built around that premise, and several other religions too.

The market supplies all kinds of stupidity, both legal and illegal. Tens of millions of dollars worth of innumeracy just this last weekend, in the Mega Millions lottery.

Or were you referring to arguments on view here at OB? If so, what's your intended referent?