Yahooey comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013

Yahooey 10 Feb 2013 21:02 UTC
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Coincidences … are the worst enemies of the truth. (Les coïncidences … sont les pires ennemies de la vérité.)

— Gaston Leroux
- Eliezer Yudkowsky 10 Feb 2013 21:22 UTC
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  Only with very low probability.
  - Yahooey 11 Feb 2013 7:00 UTC
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    and the human mind loves to find patterns even when the probabilities of the pattern being a rule are low. Coincidences are correlation.