loup-vaillant comments on [META] 'Rational' vs 'Optimized' - Less Wrong
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The jump is easy only if you happen to take ideas seriously. People compartmentalize by default, so they shouldn't have much trouble "trusting" a decision procedure while at the same time finding excuses for why it wouldn't work for them in a particular case.
If you do take ideas seriously, it will be harder to make you accept a shaky decision procedure at all: you would find too many examples in your own life where following it wouldn't have worked.
This all sounds plausible, but I'd like an example.
It's funny, though: Here we are disputing (abtractly) whether abstract or object-level discourse is more pliable to the pens of deceivers, and I'm insisting on a more object-level discussion. Ha.