wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 October 2010 11:29:21AM *  3 points [-]

The test of whether one is rational is in fact whether one obeys Bayes' Theorem, not whether one avoids screaming or weeping.

(Insert 'epistemically' rational to make the first half true. The part about the screaming is right regardless.)

EDIT: Upvoted the parent to 0 make sure it didn't look like it was me who downvoted it. I know you just hate unexplained downvotes that don't appear to have any cause.