Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes November 2014 - Less Wrong
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The classic counter-example involves a turkey in the middle of November. Nothing very bad has happened to it ever -- must be very safe, then...
Sure. As with everything else in the universe, we have to make do with partial information and sometimes it'll lead us astray.
There is a bit more wisdom here :-)
There usual context for this example is a conversation about relying on historical data and not paying too much attention to "external" (or "meta" or "structural" or... etc.) factors.