steven0461 comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: steven0461 15 March 2010 02:30:46AM 4 points [-]

"It's too good to be true" seems a more common reaction for AI and nano.

Comment author: simplicio 15 March 2010 05:34:59AM 6 points [-]

Now obviously "too good to be true" isn't strictly a good argument, but it can be a useful first-order rule of thumb, can't it?

By using it you are recognizing (a) that people who are trying to sell you something fishy usually make it sound like a panacea; (b) that if you really like the idea you should be all the more wary of it.