Nick_Tarleton comments on Controlling your inner control circuits - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 26 June 2009 05:57PM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 29 June 2009 04:47:36PM *  3 points [-]

That (predicated on a correct theory of human motivation) is the kind of stuff we're looking for.

You don't know what "we" are looking for. There is no one thing "we" are looking for. Some of us may be interested in plausible, attested-to self-help methods, even without experimental support.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 June 2009 05:01:53PM 2 points [-]

Some of us may be interested in plausible, attested-to self-help methods, even without experimental support.

Without experimental support is fine. But without extraordinary support isn't. Something must make the plausibility of a particular thing stand out, because you can't be interested in all the 1000 of equally plausible things unless you devote all your time to that.