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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative . . . …

x Burdensome Details — LessWrong Predictably Wrong Fallacies Conjunction Fallacy Heuristics & Biases Rationality Frontpage 299 Burdensome Details by Eliezer Yudkowsky 20th Sep 2007 5 min read 50 299 Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative . . . —Pooh-Bah, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado The conjunction fallacy is when humans assign a higher probability to a proposition of the form “A and B” than to one of the propositions “A” or “B” in isolation, even though it is a theorem that conjunctions are never likelier t

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