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MattG comments on LINK: An example of the Pink Flamingo, the obvious-yet-overlooked cousin of the Black Swan - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: polymathwannabe 05 November 2015 04:55PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 November 2015 06:27:43PM 0 points [-]

I think he's saying that the original population didn't notice it because of high willpower, then it get into the mainstream population who didn't have as high willpower, at which point we began to get data on the effects in a low willpower situation.