SilasBarta comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong
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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...)