pnrjulius comments on Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 05 April 2012 11:41:47PM 0 points [-]

What does it mean, actually, to "believe" something? If it implies that you integrate it into your worldview and act accordingly, then these people clearly don't "believe" in that sense. But this may be an altogether too strong notion of what it is to "believe" something, since most people have things they'd say they "believe" that aren't applied in this way.