> if acting on one datum was always fallacious, you'd think it would be bred out of us by now. True enough, but you have to look at the context. LW is sort of

> if acting on one datum was always fallacious, you'd think it would be bred out of us by now. True enough, but you have to look at the context. LW is sort of obsessed with Aumann's agreement theorem at the moment, which is why it frequently has long back-and-forth threads that don't go anywhere. This post can be seen as a reminder that sometimes you genuinely cannot convince someone of something, because it's all in your head. > I am skeptical of Galton's claim that people who cannot visualize are over-represented in math and science. I was about to say that it's impossible to do (algebraic) topology without visualizing... but then I'd be generalizing from one data point.