Lumifer comments on Rationality is about pattern recognition, not reasoning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 28 May 2015 02:06:18PM -2 points [-]

great majority of people

Of people worldwide, or of people reading this post? Considering the former leads to this failure mode.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 May 2015 03:02:27PM 2 points [-]

Of people worldwide, or of people reading this post?

Both.

Mathematicians are weird people, they think differently :-) I don't think most of LW is mathematicians.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 02 June 2015 03:07:46AM 1 point [-]

As a mathematician I can testify that even most mathematicians think in maps.