BenAlbahari comments on Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 26 March 2010 07:46:47PM 18 points [-]

GEB has a section on this.

In order to not compartmentalize, you need to test if your beliefs are all consistent with each other. If your beliefs are all statements in propositional logic, consistency checking becomes the Boolean Satisfiability Problem, which is NP-complete. If your beliefs are statements in predicate logic, then consistency checking becomes PSPACE-complete, which is even worse than NP-complete.

Not compartmentalizing isn't just difficult, it's basically impossible.

Comment author: BenAlbahari 29 March 2010 10:23:26AM 4 points [-]

Glenn Beck:

When I sobered up I started looking at all of the things that I believed in and decided to take everything out and only put the things back in me that I knew to be true... and then I would put it back in and then I would look at all the other things that I found were true and then I would match them and if one of them didn't fit with the other then one of them had to be wrong. (source)

P.S. The trick is to use bubble sort.

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