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

66 Post author: MBlume 25 April 2009 07:41AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 04:54:11PM 5 points [-]

Distinguishable, yes - but as far as much of our minds are concerned, there is no difference. They tend to treat an imagined or hypothetical scenario as though it were actual data and actual conclusions - and the more clearly the situation is envisioned, the more strongly the pseudobeliefs are held, the more powerfully they'll respond.

Exaggeration. There is a difference. There is a major difference. It's just that there's also major overlap left over.