gwern comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 02 March 2011 07:40:58PM 32 points [-]

And is that laziness so bad? If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, presumably ordinary claims require merely ordinary evidence...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2011 08:58:24PM 27 points [-]

"Ordinary claims require merely ordinary evidence" is an overlooked and tremendously important corollary.

Comment author: gwern 02 March 2011 09:17:22PM 7 points [-]

I have you to thank for that insight, actually.

If I hadn't read "Conservation of Expected Evidence" , it would never have occurred to me to think of truth-seeking as a zero-sum game and ask, if we have something extraordinary over here, then what is forced to be ordinary to compensate?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2011 08:21:53PM 3 points [-]

I'm going to quote you on this in the rationality book. Email me with who you want credited if it's not "gwern on LessWrong.com".

Comment author: gwern 15 March 2011 05:19:29PM 1 point [-]

Email sent. (Gosh, I think this will be the second book I'll be mentioned in. How thrilling.)