wedrifid comments on "Outside View!" as Conversation-Halter - Less Wrong

49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 February 2010 05:53AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 25 February 2010 10:55:59PM 2 points [-]

I simply don't see the justification for claiming the power and glory of the Outside View at all in cases like this, let alone claiming that there exists a unique obvious reference class and you have it.

It could even be somewhat worse. Forbidden things seem to be higher status 'bad' than things that can be casually dismissed.