Nominull comments on The Most Important Thing You Learned - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: Nominull 28 February 2009 01:14:15AM *  4 points [-]

It's hard to answer this question, given how much of your philosophy I have incorporated wholesale into my own, but I think it's the fundamental idea that there are Iron Laws of evidence, that they constrain exactly what it is reasonable to believe, and that no mere silly human conceit such as "argument" or "faith" can change them even in the millionth decimal place.