Will_Newsome comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 26 October 2012 12:46:47PM 6 points [-]

Empiricism in psychology doesn't actually work.

Introspection doesn't work too well either. Where does that leave us?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 26 October 2012 06:23:04PM 5 points [-]

(One thing we can do is start with observations like "introspection doesn't work too well" and reason backwards from that to the sorts of mental structures that would give rise to such a failure. That's what e.g. Robin Hanson does.)