alexflint comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2010 04:30:48PM 1 point [-]

Seems to me that, for most questions where there is any real uncertainty, many books are written advocating multiple points of view. If I were to read any one of these books, I would probably move closer to the author's point of view (since the author will select evidence to support his/her belief), but to know what I would believe after reading all of the books, I would have to actually read them to compare the strength of their arguments.

Comment author: alexflint 31 October 2010 09:07:04PM 0 points [-]

Yes I think you're mostly right, but I just don't think I'm quite good enough to weigh the evidence just right, even when I'm explicitly trying to do. Especially in cases where there is real uncertainty.