wedrifid comments on You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 February 2010 12:50:58PM *  2 points [-]

Presumably, though, you still want smart people to challenge your beliefs.

Sure, if they do so in a reasonable fashion.

[banning for dissenting in a reasonable fashion, etc]

Maybe so . . . . but so what? It's not like I'm saying he's a bad person.

One 'so what?' is that I think you could sincerely assert six mutually contradictory things before breakfast. The concept of 'bad person' involves philosophy I've never really sunk my teeth into. Virtue ethics I think they call it. But simplified deontology labels that a bad behavior and my preferred consequentialist model assigns all sorts of negatives to the expected utility thereabouts.