Luke_G.

• Luke_G. 16 Oct 2007 12:52 UTC

  10 points

  on: The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

  “Characters can be ignorant, but the author can’t say the three magic words ‘I don’t know.’”

  One funny exception to this is Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance,” which you can read here:

  http://​​www.readbookonline.net/​​readOnLine/​​1537/​​

  Just scroll down and read the last three paragraphs.

• Luke_G. 11 Sep 2007 23:01 UTC

  32 points

  on: Ap­plause Lights

  Eliezer’s nothing-but-applause-lights speech sounds strangely like every State of the Union address I’ve ever heard...