Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2009 05:16PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2009 04:39:10AM 2 points [-]

If the belief change we're talking about is becoming more rational, then the implication is that you've been irrational up until that point and failing to integrate evidence.

Saying "I've been such an idiot!" is a further factor discriminating in this direction.