TreeFrog comments on Are You a Solar Deity? - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Yvain 15 March 2009 07:30PM

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Comment author: TreeFrog 16 March 2009 03:40:31AM 0 points [-]

Word of warning: I have had a couple glasses of Firefly vodka mixed with lemonade. The everloving devil's brew, I tell you.

Yvain is most likely smarter than me and has the additional bonus of caring intensely about subjects I dabble in. However, he always delivers on the entertainment. That eardrop thing was ludicrously fun.

it seems to me that "a general strategy for approaching this sort of problem" has the same pitfalls as always trusting conventional wisdom over contrarian wisdom.

Comment author: Yvain 16 March 2009 08:48:14PM 1 point [-]

I'm glad you find my articles entertaining, but I don't see how you can say a general strategy has certain pitfalls without knowing what the strategy is. Or do you think just trying to approach this problem from a rationalist perspective is a mistake?