Cyan comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 January 2010 01:52:54AM 5 points [-]

Richard Dawkins talking to an astrologer. Best part at 10m28s.

Comment author: Cyan 20 January 2010 05:34:30PM *  2 points [-]

A fine example of:

To correctly anticipate, in advance, which experimental results shall need to be excused, the dragon-claimant must (a) possess an accurate anticipation-controlling model somewhere in his mind, and (b) act cognitively to protect either (b1) his free-floating propositional belief in the dragon or (b2) his self-image of believing in the dragon.

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