Apprentice comments on I love zebras - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 08 February 2014 02:26:24AM 0 points [-]

The problem is that as Protagoras brought up above, there may be issues that you are missing. It doesn't really make sense to consider the failure mode that you missed the importance of some detail, but not consider the failure mode where you missed not only the importance of the detail, but the detail itself.

Comment author: Apprentice 08 February 2014 10:15:07AM 0 points [-]

I'm confident by now that conditional on my paraphrase being true to the original, Dr. Yagami's statistics don't make any sense. But, like you say, it's possible that I missed something. If someone were willing to take a look at the original text with me, we could probably settle that.