Vladimir_Nesov comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong
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At this point, I would worry more about the difficulty of producing thoughts that relate to the correct answers than about convincing others, if I didn't think the difficulty is insurmountable and one should lose hope already.
There is a wiser part of me that invariably agrees with that, it's just this stupid motivational coalition of mine that anti-anti-wants to warn others when they're absolutely certain of something they shouldn't be absolutely certain about where my warning them has some at least tiny chance of convincing them to be less complacent or notice confusion, so that I won't be blamed in retrospect for having not even tried to help them. And when the wiser part starts talking about semi-consequentialist reasons why I'm doing more harm than good the other coalition goes "Oh, you're telling me to shut up and be evil. Doesn't this sound familiar..."
Hm, are you implying I should perhaps just lose hope in non-insignificantly affecting direct efforts to improve decision theory? If so I'd like to make a bet.
(I parsed your comment like three different ways when I used three different inductive biases.)
Efforts to figure out what otherworldly superintelligences are up to.