RobinHanson comments on If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it? - Less Wrong
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Yes, that was going to be my comment. The outside view also uses "reason" but with wider and shallower chains of reasoning. The inside view is more fragile, requiring more assumptions and longer chains of reasoning.
Thanks for that comment, it made something click for me.