NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 May 2012 08:00:43PM 6 points [-]

One example of a bad consequence of Universalism is the delay of the Singularity.

Not proven. It seems to me that people wildly overdo even the prejudices they have evidence for, so we don't know how much is lost due to excessive prejudice compared to how much is lost due to insufficient prejudice.