chaosmosis comments on Overconfident Pessimism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: chaosmosis 27 November 2012 06:42:05PM 2 points [-]

It doesn't lead to any new insights. I can't generate any thoughts by pretending that it's now the future and that I'm looking back into the past. I don't know whether or not other people do somehow generate new thoughts this way. It sounds plausible while also sounding ridiculous, so I'm unsure whether or not it's legitimate.