AlexSchell comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexSchell 02 May 2013 04:49:45AM *  1 point [-]

The "divorce" is logical/conceptual, not evidential. It remains true that "rationalists should win", in the presumed intended sense that rationality wins in expectation, that winning is evidence of rationality, and that we should read the dictum a bit stronger to correct for our tendency to ascribe non-winning to bad luck.