Constant2 comments on Hindsight Devalues Science - Less Wrong

92 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 August 2007 07:39PM

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Comment author: Constant2 20 August 2007 07:08:21PM -1 points [-]

"What's with the nitpicking, Constant? [...] they weren't relevant to your point"

I had - mistakenly as it turns out - assumed that you were obeying Grice's maxims. You were, by your own eventual admission, disobeying the maxim of relevance. That is why I misunderstood you.