Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Falsifiable and non-Falsifiable Ideas - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: shaih 19 February 2013 02:24AM

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Comment author: Borealis 20 February 2013 06:59:34AM *  0 points [-]

I would be interested to hear your arguments that Truth > Happiness. I think it is kind of hard to simply state that without backing it up with reasons.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 20 February 2013 07:12:27AM *  0 points [-]

shaih and I discussed this in the responses to my comment here and he updated away from this conclusion. (It is very easy to simply state conclusions without backing them up with reasons. I think you meant to say that it is not particularly persuasive.)

Comment author: Borealis 20 February 2013 07:16:33AM *  0 points [-]

Thank you.

Yes that is what I was implying and you seem to have been successful in deriving that so I don't really see the point in suggesting that I should have explained it differently.

Comment author: shaih 20 February 2013 08:08:09AM 0 points [-]

I also would like to point out that Anthony didn't disagree with me when i said it and accepted that assumption. When I can i'm going to use the arguments that Qiaochu_Yuan had and go back to talk with him to see if he will update as well.