djcb comments on The Pleasures of Rationality - Less Wrong

16 Post author: lukeprog 28 October 2011 02:35AM

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Comment author: djcb 28 October 2011 02:58:41PM *  3 points [-]

Only on LW one can get comments like that :-)

I was actually planning a 'However, ' in that comment but I will leave it as it is now. However, I do think that it is more common not to (openly) change one's opinion -- especially for people in power.

The rule-proving exception in the famous quote, attributed to Keyes:

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

(and I forgive him the colloquial use of the word 'fact'...)