Alicorn comments on The ideas you're not ready to post - Less Wrong
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Well that's pretty silly. You wouldn't treat your present self as a general expert.
Wouldn't you? You believe everything you believe. If you didn't consider yourself a general expert, why wouldn't you just follow around somebody clever and agree with them whenever they asserted something? And even then, you'd be trusting your expertise on who was clever.
"It's raining outside but I don't believe that it is."