jimmy comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimmy 17 August 2010 04:47:32AM *  7 points [-]

That's the idea behind Reason as memetic immune disorder.

Sure, compartmentalization can protect you from your failures, but it also protects you from your successes.

If you can understand Reason as memetic immune disorder, you should also be able to get to the level of taking this into account. That is, think about how there is a long history of failure to compartmentalize causing failures- a history of people making mistakes, and asking yourself if you're still confident enough to act on it.