Making History Available - LessWrong
There is a habit of thought which I call the logical fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence. Journalists who, for example, talk about the Terminator movies in a report on AI, do not usuall…
x Making History Available — LessWrong Mysterious Answers History Availability Heuristic Generalization From Fictional Evidence Rationality Frontpage 231 Making History Available by Eliezer Yudkowsky 31st Aug 2007 4 min read 88 231 There is a habit of thought which I call the logical fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence . Journalists who, for example, talk about the Terminator movies in a report on AI, do not usually treat Terminator as a prophecy or fixed truth. But the movie is recalled—is available—as if it were an illustrative historical case. As if the journalist had seen it
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