“Wrong-way reductions” are a fallacy only smart people fall into: turning a messy tractable problem into a tidy impossible one.
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More-pertinent examples of wrong-way reductions: ethical utilitarianism; divine-command ethics; Bayesianism as general epistemology; etc.
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Discussion of Kolmogoroff complexity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity …) prompted this… a beautiful wrong-way reduction, and utterly useless.
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