Jonathan_Graehl comments on Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 22 December 2009 10:38:13PM 0 points [-]

Circular: "I call (enlightened future self's) beliefs that seem like bullshit Advanced Wisdom"; "sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit".

So, this amounts to a definition.

The question is (to be addressed in your next post?): how many important things does it describe? Will anything I encounter falling into the category (Advanced Wisdom), and how's the uility*probability of that vs. the cost to consider and reject, and the possibility to mistakenly accept, some real bullshit?