Tesseract comments on Rationality Quotes December 2011 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 December 2011 06:01AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (577)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Tesseract 01 December 2011 05:35:16PM 6 points [-]

Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Euripides, Helen

Comment author: Ezekiel 01 December 2011 11:13:57PM 8 points [-]

We practice rationality because we don't have a "sense" of what not to believe, or at least not a reliable one. The closest thing is the absurdity heuristic, which is very hit-and-miss.