gwern comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 04 May 2013 02:20:52AM 5 points [-]

It was indeed me. You can find it somewhere, but I copied it over to http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ#fn95

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 May 2013 02:53:04PM 0 points [-]

I've started reading the links.

I was interested because I'd seen anti-animal experimentation people say that animal experimentation is unnecessary because we can use computer models. I concluded that these people were nitwits, and assumed that their primary argument must be wrong. Is there a name for that logical fallacy/bias?

I'm surprised that a lot of the uselessness seems to come from bad experimental design. I'd assumed the major problem would be that there are significant, non-obvious differences between humans and animals.