Oligopsony comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dpar 09 August 2010 07:53:50PM 0 points [-]

Vladimir, Cyan, and jimrandomh, since you essentially said the same thing, consider this reply to be addressed to all three of you.

Answer me honestly, when reading a fairy tale, do you really stop to consider what's written there, qualify its worth as evidence, and compare it to everything else you know that might contradict it, before making the decision that the probability of the fairy tale being true is extremely low? Do you really not just dismiss it offhand as not true without a second thought?

Comment author: Oligopsony 09 August 2010 08:00:05PM 2 points [-]

No, but only because that would be cognitively burdensome. We're boundedly rational.