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selylindi comments on Open Thread, Jun. 22 - Jun. 28, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 26 June 2015 12:35:27AM 3 points [-]

As far as I understand CFAR teaches this heuristic under the name "Gears-Thinking".

Comment author: selylindi 28 June 2015 01:22:28AM 1 point [-]

Does that name come from the old game of asking people to draw a bike, and then checking who drew bike gears that could actually work?