Document comments on Rationality Quotes October 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Document 03 October 2011 07:00:41PM *  4 points [-]

Didn't downvote, but:

  • Is he advocating rationality to people who want to be engineers, or is he just crowing about how much better engineers are than those stupid people in other fields who think they're just as smart?
  • Might be a nitpick, but speaking at all in terms of what one "believes in" rather than what's true is a bad habit.
  • It puts too much emphasis on conclusions rather than epistemology.
  • It sounds like "Believe what those cool people in lab coats say, not those freaks in robes", or "Believe things that sound scientific and modern, not things that sounds weird and fantastical".
  • It connotes that disbelieving in black magic is proof of a superior mind, rather than largely a fact about what culture one grew up in.
  • One should believe things that can't be verified by experiment.
Comment author: RobertLumley 03 October 2011 07:06:25PM 1 point [-]

Interesting, thanks. And good points. Someone had already PMed me their reason for downvoting though (not mentioned in your list), but didn't want to influence future votes.

Comment author: Document 03 October 2011 07:08:40PM 0 points [-]

I may have edited while you were reading; sorry if so.

Comment author: Document 03 October 2011 07:45:16PM *  0 points [-]

(I thought I got the phrase "cool people in lab coats" from a LW comment, but now it's joined the list of comments I can't find with Google.)

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