shminux comments on Rationality Quotes March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 26 March 2014 07:00:58AM 1 point [-]

More like "discount status on problems where expertise is a poor predictor of accuracy".

Comment author: fezziwig 26 March 2014 07:50:24PM 2 points [-]

I think this steelman is not quite true to the spirit of the original. The contrast he draws between "using a model" and "looking at data like a scientist" is especially strange. One wonders what he thinks of meteorology.