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Sarunas comments on Test Driven Thinking - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: adamzerner 24 July 2015 06:38PM

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Comment author: Sarunas 24 July 2015 08:01:22PM *  0 points [-]

Am I correct to rephrase your idea as "People should develop a habit to apply reductio ad absurdum and, to some extent, absurdity heuristic more often"?

Comment author: adamzerner 24 July 2015 08:05:24PM 1 point [-]

No. I think it applies to more than absurd ideas.