JoshuaZ comments on Against Discount Rates - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2008 10:00AM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 17 March 2011 03:43:22AM * 3 points [-]

You can't just extrapolate out to infinity from a small number of samples near to the origin!

Some people can. It's called proof by induction.

This is not how proof by induction works.

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