paper-machine comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Oscar_Cunningham 03 April 2012 12:42AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 April 2012 07:54:07PM *  2 points [-]

And it is actually a rationality problem.

You mean to the extent that any problem at all is a rationality problem, or something else?

Comment author: [deleted] 18 April 2012 10:28:32PM 2 points [-]

It's a bias, as far as I'm concerned, and something that needs to be overcome. People with egos can be right, but if one can't deal with the fact that they're either right or wrong regardless of their egotism, then one is that much slower to update.