RobinHanson comments on Call for new SIAI Visiting Fellows, on a rolling basis - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 05 December 2009 04:32:49AM 9 points [-]

Brilliant decisive reasons are rare for most topics, and most people can't articulate very many of their reasons for most of their choices. Their most common reason would probably be that they found other topics more interesting, and to evaluate that reason Wei would have to understand the reasons for thinking all those other topics interesting. Saying "if you can't prove to me why I'm wrong in ten minutes I must be right" is not a very reliable path to truth.