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Luke_A_Somers comments on "Dialectics"? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 July 2014 12:23:55PM 2 points [-]

Yes, as noted many times before, noting that X emerges from Y and Z is the beginning, not the end. It's just a way of reducing the solution space modestly, and predicting that the result is likely to be very complicated if it's not obvious.