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Xachariah comments on HP:MOR and the Radio Fallacy - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: RichardChappell 21 July 2012 07:55PM

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Comment author: Xachariah 22 July 2012 04:48:49AM *  4 points [-]

I disagree that Kaj_Sotala's post applies. Just because you label something a fallacy doesn't make it a fallacy. Googling the "radio fallacy" turns up this thread and nothing else related.

This 'radio fallacy argument' wants to place Harry's argument into the reference class of 'fallacies' and has nothing but a clever label and bad analogy as that basis.

Comment author: SilasBarta 23 July 2012 03:55:17PM 2 points [-]

I agree (I think), but I was mainly applying the Kaj_Sotala article to the quoted part of endoself's post, not so much RichardChappell's argument, since the quoted part is such a common occurrence.

Comment author: randallsquared 24 July 2012 03:43:50AM 1 point [-]

Can you point out why the analogy is bad?