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Generalization From Fictional Evidence
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Applied to
Who Should Have Been Killed, and Contains Neato? Who Else Could It Be, but that Villain Magneto!
by
Ace Delgado
5mo
ago
Applied to
I universally trying to reject the Mind Projection Fallacy—consequences
by
YanLyutnev
7mo
ago
Applied to
Forecasting Through Fiction
by
Yitz
3y
ago
Applied to
Movie review: Don't Look Up
by
MondSemmel
3y
ago
Yoav Ravid
v1.7.0
Nov 14th 2021 GMT
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Added a mention of a 2003 talk where Eliezer already coined the fallacy
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Applied to
Three Stories about not Thinking too Hard
by
ejacob
4y
ago
Applied to
Learning from counterfactuals
by
Gyrodiot
4y
ago
Applied to
The danger of living a story - Singularity Tropes
by
Multicore
4y
ago
Applied to
Making History Available
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
When can Fiction Change the World?
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
How Tim O'Brien gets around the logical fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
Orwell and fictional evidence for dictatorship stability
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Applied to
Fictional Evidence vs. Fictional Insight
by
Ruby
4y
ago
Ruby
v1.6.0
Sep 25th 2020 GMT
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Created by
Vladimir_Nesov
at
5y
Zack_M_Davis
v1.5.0
Nov 16th 2009 GMT
(-21)
byline removal
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steven0461
v1.4.0
Sep 3rd 2009 GMT
(+15)
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