billswift 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: billswift 28 February 2009 06:02:07AM 5 points [-]

The big problem with relying on someone else to save you is "Why would they bother?". No one is likely to be as motivated to find mistakes in your beliefs are you are (or at least as you should be).