ESRogs comments on Examples in Mathematics - Less Wrong

14 Post author: kgalias 14 December 2013 10:15PM

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Comment author: ESRogs 15 December 2013 09:33:35AM 3 points [-]

In both of quotes the non-example users are presented as unusual, right? So that doesn't really seem to contradict Aaronson's advice.

Comment author: kgalias 15 December 2013 01:38:32PM 2 points [-]

No, of course not, but it still might make sense to wonder why it's so.

Comment author: ESRogs 16 December 2013 07:57:49PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, fair point.