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Nominull comments on The Relation Projection Fallacy and the purpose of life - Less Wrong Discussion

67 Post author: Academian 28 December 2012 04:14AM

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Comment author: Nominull 28 December 2012 04:27:57AM 4 points [-]

The Curry Fallacy.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 December 2012 04:41:01AM 6 points [-]

Partial application, actually... Currying is the transform on the function to make Partial application easy. What we are doing here is partially applying relations...

Maximum nitpick

Comment author: bryjnar 28 December 2012 09:01:53AM 1 point [-]

+1 nitpickiness.

And Eliezer makes the same mistake in the linked article too ;) Not that it exactly matters!