DuncanS comments on What Cost for Irrationality? - Less Wrong

59 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 01 July 2010 06:25PM

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Comment author: RobinZ 03 July 2010 06:28:58PM 6 points [-]

Sort of. And we all know the answer to that question is that it's often completely impossible.

Not to sound insufficiently pessimistic, but I don't think that's been rigorously established. It doesn't seem impossible to raise the sanity waterline - it seems more likely that we have inferential distances to cross and armors built to protect false beliefs we must pierce.

Comment author: DuncanS 03 July 2010 06:35:46PM 4 points [-]

I like this comment. Given the historical improvements that have already come about, it can't be unreasonable to look for more.