JulianMorrison comments on Instrumental vs. Epistemic -- A Bardic Perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 25 April 2009 09:35:13AM *  6 points [-]

It seems like you've already worked out the answer with good epistemology (you must act dominant) but you can't apply it unless you put yourself in a less epistemically correct state.

But were you in an epistemically correct state to begin with? Your thoughts were. Your executing adaptations weren't; they were shaped around an assumed bone-wielding alpha male.

Isn't what you've done really more like "moving the untruth around"?