SilasBarta comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 10 August 2010 08:56:56PM 2 points [-]

I agree, this sounds exactly right to me. Unfortunately, I remember that in a lot of Robin Hanson's earlier OvercomingBias posts, my reaction to them would be, "Yes, B is technically evidence in favor of A, but it's extremely weak -- why even mention it?" For example, Suicide Rock.

(I think I have a picture of one of those somewhere...)