jimrandomh comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

23 Post author: multifoliaterose 19 August 2010 10:47PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 21 August 2010 04:48:54PM 3 points [-]

My bottom line: what we should be discussing is simply "Are W, X, Y and Z true?" Once we have a good idea about how strong that house of cards is, ...

You shouldn't deny knowledge of how strong claims are, and refer to those claims as "a house of cards" in the same sentence. Those two claims are mutually exclusive, and putting them close together like this set off my propagandometer.