Pablo_Stafforini comments on Rationality Quotes June 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 02 June 2013 11:32:43AM *  6 points [-]

It may not matter pragmatically but it still matters scientifically. Just as you want to have a correct explanation of rainbows, regardless of whether this explanation has any effects on our aesthetic appreciation of them, so too you want to have a factually accurate account of apparently altruistic behavior, independently of whether this matters from a moral perspective.

Comment author: ChristianKl 06 June 2013 09:42:42PM -2 points [-]

Things is about predicting things not about explaning them. If a theory has no additional predictive value than it's not scientifically valuable.

In this case I don't the the added predictive value.