wedrifid comments on Rationalists don't care about the future - Less Wrong

3 Post author: PhilGoetz 15 May 2011 07:48AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 May 2011 06:16:20AM * -1 points [-]

You just admitted that you're one of the people I wrote that sentence for.

Yes. I refer you to my agreement with Eliezer's rather succinct rebuttal.

If a conclusion is known to be false cannot be good ones. Reading the post narrowed down your error to the assumptions you made.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 May 2011 04:10:52PM -1 points [-]

Known to be false? So you have empirical data from observing perfect rational beings?

Comment author: wedrifid 17 May 2011 05:01:38PM 0 points [-]

So you have empirical data from observing perfect rational beings?