On: See Randomness

[thunk]

There's a pleasant irony here, too, since that's an overgeneralization.

[khafra → thunk]

Everyone overgeneralizes from extremely limited data. At least, I do.

[thunk → khafra]

Nice. You were joking, right? Sometimes it's hard to tell.

[bkovitz → thunk]

I don't think it's a joke. You have no choice but to overgeneralize from experience. If you limited yourself to only what you can support by direct observation, you would be catatonic or dead.

[thunk → bkovitz]

Perhaps you have no choice but to generalize from experience. But some people are better than others at avoiding overgeneralization.

Anyway, the juxtaposition of "Everyone ... At least I do" seems to peg it as a joke, given the subject.

[fburnaby → thunk]

For example, I figured everyone would continue to write one-line responses, making this thread continue in its pleasing diagonal venture across the page. Guess I was wrong.