GLaDOS comments on Rationality quotes January 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GLaDOS 06 January 2012 09:42:21AM 18 points [-]

In questions of this appalling magnitude, I find the best way to "overcome bias" is often to find perspectives which seem to make each answer obvious. Once we recognize that both A and B are obviously true, and A is inconsistent with B, we are in the right mindset for actual thought.

--Mencius Moldbug

Comment author: gwern 18 January 2012 08:18:45PM 2 points [-]

Remember sources please; "How Dawkins got pwned (part 7)", 8 November 2007

Comment author: GLaDOS 19 January 2012 07:02:35PM 0 points [-]

You have a thing for Moldbug too, don't you? ^_^

Comment author: Manfred 19 January 2012 07:37:43PM 0 points [-]

This sounds like bad advice. In Moldbug's application of it, for example, making things "obvious" corresponds to making bad arguments - arguments that, in some alternate reality, possibly made of straw, would correspond to some possibly straw person who found the argument very obvious. And then you say "well, obvious argument #1 is awful, so by process of elimination let's go with obvious argument #2! Q.E.D."

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