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Michaelos comments on The cup-holder paradox - Less Wrong Discussion

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 26 March 2013 04:47AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 March 2013 12:12:11PM 14 points [-]

I agree, and I think I found a Wikipedia article which supports your claim and references the effect you are referring to, so I'll link that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality