Jiro comments on Just Lose Hope Already - All

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2007 12:39AM

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Comment author: Jiro 06 October 2016 02:19:45AM *  0 points [-]

This ignores the case where your "original reason" was an attempt to formalize some informal reason. If your error is in the formalization process and not in the reason itself, being right for the wrong reason is a plausible scenario.