Comment on Explanations for Less Wrong articles that you didn't understand

Richard_Kennaway
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:53:05 GMT

Theories need to work for the difficult cases as well as the easy ones.

Show me some, and I will see what I have to say about them.

The pebbles are an easy case because there is an intrinsic twoness to two pebbles and two sheep.

What is "intrinsic twoness"? How does this make the pebbles an easy case? I don't need to know any numbers, to be able to match up pebbles and sheep, and to do it in my head, I only need a long enough, reproducible sequence of mental entities. A bard could just as easily use lines of epic poetry.

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