johnlawrenceaspden comments on Belief as Attire - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 August 2007 05:13PM

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Comment author: pnrjulius 14 April 2012 09:15:08PM 3 points [-]

Up to and including my belief that the scientific method is the best approach to understanding the world?

Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 16 August 2012 10:05:51AM 2 points [-]

Absolutely, yes. No question that part of the reason we believe that is in order to identify with our tribe. I personally am prepared to reduce it by three orders of magnitude, from 1-epsilon to 1-1000*epsilon.