gworley comments on Are you crazy? - Less Wrong

2 Post author: gworley 20 July 2009 04:27PM

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Comment author: Dagon 20 July 2009 05:31:49PM 5 points [-]

This question goes away if you taboo "sane". If you're really asking "are my deeply-held beliefs about my other deeply-held beliefs true", then you start to apply some of the techniques being explored here.

And still, you should accept that no bayesean estimate (including meta-beliefs) can rationally be 0 or 1, so there's always the chance that you're completely stuck in a fantasy.

Comment author: gworley 20 July 2009 07:32:24PM 1 point [-]

If I taboo "sane" in the sense used above, I get: typical human reasoning.