Annoyance comments on Honesty: Beyond Internal Truth - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2009 02:59AM

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Comment author: Annoyance 08 June 2009 11:11:38PM 3 points [-]

I know I'm a really crap rationalist.

You don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than your slowest friend.

In explicitspeak: You may be right, but your being right on this matter makes you a better rationalist than the vast majority of people who claim that title.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 09 June 2009 08:17:55AM 12 points [-]

I suggest that competitive bear races, metaphorically speaking, are so rare that even looking for them is positively harmful. Nearly all tests of reason, from frying with hot fat to investing your money to buying cryonics, the only people in the race are you and the bear, and you really do have to be faster.