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Armok_GoB comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

42 Post author: Costanza 29 December 2011 11:23PM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 30 December 2011 05:57:36PM 0 points [-]

I think I've found the problem: I don't have any good intuitive notion of absurdity. The only clear association I have with it is under "absurdity heuristic" as "a thing to ignore".

That is: It's not self evident to me that what it implies IS absurd. After all, it was implied by a chain of logic I grok and can find no flaw in.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 30 December 2011 06:47:35PM 0 points [-]

I used "absurdity" in the technical math sense.