DSimon comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSimon 02 February 2011 06:09:40PM 9 points [-]

If a given hypothesis is incoherent even to its strongest proponents, then it's not very meritorious. It's in "not even wrong" territory.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 09 February 2011 11:02:02AM *  0 points [-]

I strongly suspect that there is a lot of coherence among many different spiritualists' and theologians' conception of God, and I strongly suspect that most atheists have no idea what kind of God the more enlightened spiritualists are talking about, and are instead constructing a straw God made up of secondhand half-remembered Bible passages. In general I think LW is embarrassingly bad at steel-manning.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 February 2011 01:05:35AM -1 points [-]

Coherence isn't necessary factor for a good theory. In artificial intelligence it's sometimes preferable to allow incoherence to have higher robustness.

Comment author: NihilCredo 03 February 2011 08:00:11AM 2 points [-]

Could you expand?