linaresj comments on Rationality quotes: September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: linaresj 01 September 2010 08:27:35AM 8 points [-]

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

-- Spinoza

Comment author: James_Miller 01 September 2010 02:55:06PM 5 points [-]

But not being accepted by many provides some evidence against a thing being true.

Comment author: RobinZ 02 September 2010 09:04:50PM 5 points [-]

And being thought of by someone is evidence of the thing being true. And all these evidences are screened off by correct analysis of the thought itself.

Comment author: Drahflow 03 September 2010 10:30:27AM 4 points [-]

But some thoughts are both so complex and so irrelevant that a correct analysis of the thought would cost more than an infrequent error about thoughts of this class (costs of necessary meta-analysis included).

Comment author: wedrifid 03 September 2010 11:08:17AM 2 points [-]

But some thoughts are both so complex and so irrelevant that a correct analysis of the thought would cost more than an infrequent error about thoughts of this class (costs of necessary meta-analysis included).

Most of what we do here, for example.