common_law comments on Firewalling the Optimal from the Rational - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2012 08:01AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 October 2012 03:53:19AM 1 point [-]

The feeling of 'People who agree with me on X also agree with me on completely unrelated Y' is awesome.

The halo effect may be awesome ... but it's deadly!

The halo effect is not necessarily either a cause or a consequence of the quoted phenomenon.

Comment author: common_law 09 October 2012 01:27:25AM 3 points [-]

Do you agree then that it is a potential explanation? If so, what's a more plausible one? It may limitations of my imagination, but I don't see one.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 October 2012 04:12:03AM 1 point [-]

It may limitations of my imagination, but I don't see one.

Try.

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