Jayson_Virissimo comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 15 July 2009 06:06:07AM 12 points [-]

You sure have a lot of trust in "known facts". It wasn't until after my university education that I found out that the known fact that "people in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat because the Bible says so" was not really true at all. I uncover false "known facts" that I was taught during my formal education every month or so.

"Known facts" are overrated.

Comment author: rwallace 15 July 2009 08:39:57AM 6 points [-]

Not on the level of the things being discussed in this thread, you don't!

I mean seriously, look at what's going on here: apparently rational people are saying they would believe in vampires, talking cows and orbital mind control lasers on the unsupported word of an authority figure. I suppose I shouldn't be shocked, human nature being what it is, but still.

Comment author: Tom_Talbot 15 July 2009 07:26:49PM 5 points [-]

I'd believe in anything up to orbiting vampire cows, but beyond that I'd be sceptical.