Lumifer comments on A Dialogue On Doublethink - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 09 May 2014 01:35:34AM 0 points [-]

in loose analogy to a 'pure' programming language, wherein one exception is sufficient to remove much of the possible gains.

Could you give some examples?

there's a large class of epistemic failures that you only recognize if you're striving for perfection.

I am not sure which class you're talking about... again, can you provide some examples?