JGWeissman comments on SotW: Avoid Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 May 2012 03:57PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 25 May 2012 06:39:00PM 1 point [-]

I don't know either, but I observe that an upside down W resembles a segment of a conditional tree with two points at the top and either three or four at the bottom, which sounds similar to what the OP is describing.

Comment author: JGWeissman 25 May 2012 06:52:47PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I think I see it. So on top it has the possible worlds, and on the bottom each world branches into the possible consequences in that world of having each of the possible beliefs.

Comment author: Mercurial 26 May 2012 10:46:11PM 0 points [-]

Yep.