simplicio comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Neotenic 04 March 2013 03:07:50AM 2 points [-]

If the only way to get a clearer picture of the world - to enhance it epistemically, as it were - were to make it much better to start with, would the Utilitarians finally have found an argument that convinces any epistemic rationalist?

Comment author: simplicio 04 March 2013 11:24:11PM 4 points [-]

Only if there were no uncertainty about what "better" meant.