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x Generalizing From One Example — LessWrong Typical Mind Fallacy Fallacies Inferential Distance Mental Imagery / Visualization Psychiatry Rationality Frontpage 448 Generalizing From One Example by Scott Alexander 28th Apr 2009 8 min read 425 448 Related to: The Psychological Unity of Humankind , Instrumental vs. Epistemic: A Bardic Perspective " Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do." -- Vlad Taltos ( Issola, Steven Brust) My old professor, David Berman, liked to talk about what he called the "typical mind fallacy", which he illustrated through the following example: There was
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