peter_hurford comments on Rationality Quotes July 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peter_hurford 02 July 2012 10:09:55PM 5 points [-]

Yeah, this is what I had in mind.

Another lesson I think it teaches is it is easy to get caught up in long, drawn out debates about positions that are nearly impossible to conclusively refute (think theism).

Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2012 12:30:42AM *  -1 points [-]

In other words, ask yourself: "What would William Lane Craig do?"

Then don't do that.

Comment author: peter_hurford 03 July 2012 01:47:42AM 6 points [-]

Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 03 July 2012 12:39:14PM 3 points [-]

At best, don't do that for the same reasons he did - but even there I'm sure that he's right even on the reasoning some of the time.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2012 02:10:27AM 0 points [-]

Edited.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 July 2012 07:05:16AM 10 points [-]

Fun fact: William Lane Craig has rigorously argued that it's best to one-box on Newcomb's problem.

If the rule you followed led you to this of what use was the rule?

— Anton Chigurh

Comment author: Oligopsony 05 July 2012 12:08:13AM 2 points [-]

That question has some surprising correlations more generally (at least for someone who's been trained to cluster LW positions together into a natural set.)

Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2012 07:23:37AM 5 points [-]

I'm not interested in your bullshit, Anton.

Carson Wells

Comment author: mwengler 04 July 2012 06:54:10PM -2 points [-]

Recced because it is funny and relevant, I am actually quite enjoying the Chigurh quotes. Although I am tired of Will always bringing in Catholic stuff. :)

Comment author: Will_Newsome 04 July 2012 11:03:14PM 5 points [-]

Lane Craig isn't Catholic, and I didn't bring him up.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 July 2012 01:17:08AM 1 point [-]

I hadn't heard of him before. [follows the link]

Craig modifies the thought experiment by introducing operations such as subtraction and shows that subtracting identical quantities from identical quantities would have non-identical remainders.[9] Since we have no evidence of such things in the actual world

Don't we?

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