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thomblake comments on Dragon Ball's Hyperbolic Time Chamber - Less Wrong Discussion

35 Post author: gwern 02 September 2012 11:49PM

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Comment author: thomblake 12 September 2012 02:50:16PM 4 points [-]

The above comment would be insightful if it was a counterexample. This means it is not a counterexample. That means that it is not insightful.

This does not follow. You're treating the first premise like a double implication, but it's certainly not true that the comment would be insightful if and only if it was a counterexample.

Clearly the comment "afsd;ljkurjzvn,x" was just a typo for "afsd:ljkurjzvn.x", which I read as agreement with my point, making clever reference to complexity theory and Aaronson's refutation of the waterfall argument.

Comment author: Rukifellth 14 April 2013 10:43:53PM 0 points [-]

So it's isn't rot13?