hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong
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No, it isn't. The most obvious meaning is plainly false; we can steel-man it into something not blatantly wrong, but the new statement still wouldn't warrant this level of certainty.
ETA, from this memo to President Truman laying out the strategy which let him defeat Dewey after all:
I mean, the steelman would be to say that this is a rap song that gets off on clever phrases, but it obviously isn't supposed to be completely certain, it's just a good mental model to keep in mind.