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36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Sean_Landis 28 August 2007 11:26:30AM 0 points [-]

"Don't y'all find it a little suspicious that so many people think "emergence" is a useful concept, yet have different definitions of what it is?"

I think "bias" is a useful concept, despite the tendency for people to disagree over what regions of failurespace count as "bias." (Uh, ahem).