shokwave comments on A sense of logic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 15 December 2010 04:11:20AM 0 points [-]

I don't actually know what to think. I can't see any problems with it extrapolating out to real life actions, but I spent some time in classes on logic, so the danger of "*if [false premise] then [anything]" is well-known to me. (From falsehood, anything is permitted and so on). I think as long as you presented the argument to someone who held their beliefs truly it would be effective and safe, but if you presented it to a believer-in-belief it probably would fail. Still safe, though.

(I actually don't know how to make one. Is the user page at all related to overviews of my comments? I have been wondering for a while why everyone seems to have overviews, but I don't.)