Vladimir_Nesov comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Will_Newsome 13 August 2010 04:50PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 15 August 2010 09:45:21PM 1 point [-]

You are committing the general error of prematurely declaring the question "dissolved". It's always better to err in the other direction.

"Beginning to feel" that the question is dissolved is far from the level of certainty required to "declare it dissolved", merely a hunch that it's the right direction to look for the answer (not that it's a question I'm especially interested in, but it might be useful to understand it better).

I agree with your description in the second paragraph, but don't clearly see what you wanted to communicate through it. (Closest salient idea is Hanson's "mingled worlds".)