orthonormal comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Morendil 16 March 2010 03:08:56PM 4 points [-]

ISTM that we could summarize Eliezer's post, conclusions, subsequent discussion, and much previous LW material thus: "there are no reliable epistemic shortcuts".

Comment author: orthonormal 20 March 2010 06:34:29PM 0 points [-]

I disagree. Some surface features do correlate exceedingly well with epistemic rationality; it's just harder to rule out false positives than false negatives.