pdf23ds comments on The Proper Use of Humility - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pdf23ds 02 December 2006 12:05:43AM -1 points [-]

"Most abstract beliefs most people have make pretty much no difference to their actions."

I'm pretty sure I understand well enough what you're trying to say. But this statement is literally false, since abstract beliefs include many general knowledge claims. If I were informed that my car had just been run into in the parking lot, that would certainly influence my actions.

Perhaps you mean to restrict "beliefs" to "moral beliefs"? Or maybe you mean "abstract" as in "related to one's daily life only tenuously, if at all"?