Nornagest comments on Open thread, July 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 29 July 2013 06:29:58AM 0 points [-]

I don't disagree with any of this. All I was trying to establish is precisely that using "foul! Base rate fallacy!" in place of a fully elaborated argument is neither socially acceptable nor effective.