Douglas_Knight comments on Yet More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong

4 Post author: NancyLebovitz 08 September 2013 02:18PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 11 September 2013 02:50:56AM 1 point [-]

It seems to me inconsistent to suggest that a random LW user can usefully "do the research" but cannot usefully extract information from other random LW users, some of which probably believe that they have "done the research."

Comment author: FiftyTwo 22 September 2013 10:42:00PM 2 points [-]

There's a selection bias problem, the people most likely to comment are those with strongly held outlier veiws rather than the majority who have considered the problem and come to some moderate solution.