Morendil comments on Fallacies of reification - the placebo effect - Less Wrong Discussion
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That's basically what I thought the article was doing.
OK. Judging from much of this discussion, it hasn't really done that well. My taboo request was prompted because I was confused about why you would make two completely distinct points, namely the conceptual/reification point and the point that expectation effects are mostly bunk, in the same post, unless there is some sort of weird connection I'm missing.