XiXiDu comments on Request: Interesting Invertible Facts - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2010 08:02PM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 09 October 2010 03:13:57PM 2 points [-]

Note also that I have a general policy of keeping anything related to religion out of the rationality book...

This is off-topic but very interesting. Anything related to religion is a pretty broad category, I wonder why.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 09 October 2010 08:50:17PM 17 points [-]

What Vladimir said, plus it keeps atheists from smugly thinking that rationality is primarily about not being religious.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 October 2010 04:11:49PM *  8 points [-]

Because it keeps religious people from perceiving the book as attacking their beliefs, thus stopping this particular bad reason from making it less persuasive than it is.

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 October 2010 05:54:56PM 3 points [-]

Using properties of the bottom line to evaluate validity of arguments is generally an anti-epistemic practice, avoid it in your thinking.

Comment author: ciphergoth 12 October 2010 12:11:08PM 1 point [-]