MrHen comments on Epistemic Luck - Less Wrong
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Keeping in mind, though, that a "stupid cached thought" is not stupid merely because it is cached. It looks to me like this might be a confusion between "cached thought" and "short handle that refers to a more detailed, commonly understood situation", both here and in your earlier response to me in this thread.
In this case, I think it is (a) stupid and (b) a cached thought.
The earlier response, that you have linked to, was mostly me realizing that the knee-jerk reaction was because I tend to have that reaction to cached thoughts. It just didn't mean anything to me in that context and it triggered the reaction I have when I encounter cached thoughts. I wasn't trying to give the impression that I thought, "Think for yourself" was stupid.
In retrospect, I suppose saying "reject out of hand" was a bit harsh...
Hopefully that clarifies something I muddled up earlier. :P