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wedrifid comments on Open thread, February 15-28, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 March 2013 08:38:04AM 0 points [-]

I don't see why the "pattern matching" is invalid.

It is the things that tend to go with it that are the problem. Such as the failure to understand which facets are different and similar and the missing of the most important part of the particular case due to distraction by thoughts relevant to a different scenario.