juliawise comments on But There's Still A Chance, Right? - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 January 2008 01:56AM

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 06 January 2008 02:57:36AM 27 points [-]

You can blame generalizing from fictional evidence too. One-in-a-million chances come true nine times out of ten. I read it in a book somewhere.

Comment author: juliawise 24 August 2011 04:05:06PM 6 points [-]

Several Pratchett novels play on this.