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Kevin Dorst
Personal blog · kevindorst.com/stranger_apologiesphilosophyscience
Kevin Dorst writes KEVIN DORST, a personal blog at kevindorst.com about philosophy and science. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kevin Dorst's posts on reasoning and probability, such as "The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy", which one commenter cited as a previously discussed HN submission. Neither comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Professional website and blog
Most-linked posts?
- The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-10
What Hacker News says?
See "The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy" [1] (which was recently discussed[2] on HN). [1] - https://www.kevindorst.com/stranger_apologies/the-gamblers-f... [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973324
Comment linking /stranger_apologies/the-gamblers-fallacy-is-not-a-fallacy
on “Against Bayesianism – David Deutsch”Submitted The gambler's fallacy is not a fallacy? as a story · 59 points
HN discussionYour dog's exemples are fair, we align on that. unnatural argument is to be ignored IMHO, it does't makes sense outside our emotional feeling and has multiple (and contradictory) interpretation so you'll end up arguing on each cases and don't have a rule/framework. A thought experiment from Jonathan Haidt: > Julie and Mark are brother and sister. They are traveling together in France on summer vacation from college.…
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on “Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK”Submitted The Gambler's Fallacy Is Not a Fallacy as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gambler's Fallacy is not a fallacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Plea for Political Empathy as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
