Vladimir_Nesov comments on Framing Consciousness - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: cousin_it 08 May 2009 10:27AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 May 2009 09:37:41PM 1 point [-]

But if I did not already agree, your comment would not have convinced me.

Right. It wasn't an argument, it was a concept intended to give clearer structure to your own impression. Epistemic rationality, for example, is targeted at giving you accurate estimates, whatever they are, even though it's not domain-specific and it doesn't argue for specific positions on specific questions.