xamdam comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

77 Post author: AnnaSalamon 17 September 2010 07:02AM

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Comment author: xamdam 17 September 2010 08:04:26PM 1 point [-]

enemy's vocabulary.

Is there a war I missed?

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 17 September 2010 09:35:20PM *  3 points [-]

Perhaps I should have used a different term. I just meant that Think and Grow Rich contains much discussion of e.g. "applied faith", and it is easy to hear terms like that and try to spit out the whole book. But if you listen to the concrete actions it is recommending, rather than allowing yourself to react as to an enemy camp, most of them seem sound.

Comment author: mattnewport 17 September 2010 08:09:31PM 0 points [-]

I wondered about this comment as well. Think and Grow Rich has some fairly serious rationality fails and contains some pretty wacky and unsupported ideas so maybe that's what the comment was getting at.

Comment author: xamdam 17 September 2010 08:11:18PM 1 point [-]

World is rationality fail, by and large. Enemy sounds like there is something extra evil there.

Comment author: mattnewport 17 September 2010 08:16:26PM 0 points [-]

Agreed.