AnnaSalamon comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

82 Post author: AnnaSalamon 29 October 2010 12:00AM

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 29 October 2010 12:14:08PM 5 points [-]

I got the sense that the question is asking you to look for beliefs you predict will change for the worse.

Er, no, I more meant beliefs that you'll change for the better. For example, some people find themselves flip-flipping from one fad or intellectual community to the next, each time being very enthusiastic about the new set of ideas. In such cases, their friends can often predict that later on their beliefs will move back toward their normal beliefs, and so the individual probably can too.