orthonormal comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong
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ISTM that we could summarize Eliezer's post, conclusions, subsequent discussion, and much previous LW material thus: "there are no reliable epistemic shortcuts".
I disagree. Some surface features do correlate exceedingly well with epistemic rationality; it's just harder to rule out false positives than false negatives.