Stuart_Armstrong comments on Minor, perspective changing facts - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 07:01PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 22 April 2013 08:40:23PM *  7 points [-]

I didn't say anything about the reasons for that shift - just that it was there, and surprised me.

And Wikipedia may be unreliable, but it's the best I can do without a very slow and thourough search that would take days... The point is that we need to be able to change our minds on minor points without huge amounts of effort.