shminux comments on The Use of Many Independent Lines of Evidence: The Basel Problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 03 June 2013 07:26:50PM 1 point [-]

I like the Euler example. The guy was one of the more pragmatic among mathematicians. Would be nice to have more examples and counter-examples from other fields.

Also, I don't understand your arxiv example. Most preprints are not related to each other at all, why lump them together?