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nhamann comments on The elephant in the room, AMA - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: calcsam 12 May 2011 02:59PM

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Comment author: nhamann 12 May 2011 07:37:48PM 4 points [-]

Good reminder that reversed stupidity is not intelligence.

Adding to the list: Hans Berger invented the EEG while trying to investigate telepathy, which he was convinced was real. Even fools can make important discoveries.

Comment author: Clippy 13 May 2011 02:37:09PM 4 points [-]

But increasing one's foolishness does not increase the expected rate of discovery.