Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Epistemic Viciousness - Less Wrong

55 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 March 2009 11:33PM

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Comment author: BrandonReinhart 14 March 2009 12:00:46AM *  15 points [-]

This is an aside, but related: there is an awesome website dedicated to investigating and uncovering fraud and vice within the Martial Arts world: Bullshido. Participants post about questionable doings (such as masters who claim to teach or use ki) and visit those schools to report on the fraud. It also has areas for regular Martial Arts chat, but this sub-forum is the one that primarily focuses on investigations.

This, then, is an incomplete outline to an answer to your question: due diligence and active pursuit of those who fraudulently represent "arts of rationality." If there were a series of Dojos of the Bayesian Sect, those dojos would be responsible for exposing the Thousand Schools of False Ways. It would ever be an ongoing battle. Just as the members of Bullshido are constantly encountering and exposing "McDojos" that claim to teach practical self-defense techniques that would, in reality, probably just get you killed or kids' grappling schools taught by instructors with sex assault convictions.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2009 12:25:00AM 4 points [-]

Doesn't seem like an "aside" to me; investigations that look for that sort of simple fraud was something I hadn't yet thought of.

Comment author: BrandonReinhart 14 March 2009 01:19:38AM *  1 point [-]

Well then, here is a proper aside. (Found in this thread.)