Trevor_Blake comments on [SEQ RERUN] Could Anything Be Right? - Less Wrong
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Brute force attacks on passwords are mostly being wrong about things. If beliefs are singular things, like a single attack on a password, EY's claim isn't true. If beliefs are more than one thing, EY might be correct. If every single belief about being in a new social setting is distinct (not knowing cultural norms and knowing part of a language are two things), then EY's claim isn't true. If beliefs come in clusters (not knowing cultural norms but knowing part of a language are not things that can be separated). And if (as Popper suggested) scientific knowledge is based on falsification of bold conjectures, then scientific beliefs don't have to have a little right in them to be wrong later.
Correct, as long as some people are not considered human beings. Some people straight up don't have that baked in recognition of right and wrong. These include infants and people with mental problems.
The place we start is the place we start. The foundation is the starting pistol, not a blank slate or a baked brain. We hit the ground running and go from there.
You still need to know what a password is, how to enter it, that it won't secretly change on you between attempts, etc.