nyan_sandwich comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 April 2012 06:40:53AM 0 points [-]

Beliefs about primordial cows, etc. Most people's beliefs. He's talking descriptively, not normatively.

Comment author: Vaniver 15 April 2012 05:03:45PM 1 point [-]

Don't my beliefs about primordial cows constrain my anticipation of the fossil record and development of contemporary species?

I think "most people's beliefs" fit the anticipation framework- so long as you express them in a compartmentalized fashion, and my understanding of the point of the 'belief=anticipation' approach is that it helps resist compartmentalization, which is generally positive.