Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Is Santa Real? - Less Wrong

19 Post author: thomblake 13 March 2009 08:45PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2009 07:57:44AM 5 points [-]

There's no way you can teach a child any particular definition of rationality that's true enough to be locked in that way.

Hell, there's no way you can teach an adult that.

You could teach them to respect the truth... but no matter what you teach them, sooner or later it's going to fail them, and the best you can do is try to deliver that warning.