RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 16 October 2013 03:02:37PM 1 point [-]

Just to be clear beyond my closing aside that I remain an unbeliever, I am not defending Wright's (or Lewis's, or Chesterton's) argument here against anything but the knockdown that "oh well, something went wrong with his brain". Nor do I agree with Gwern's attribution of Wright's account of his pre-conversion self to hindsight bias, or "hindsight bias" becomes a universal counterargument against every account of past events.

More generally, one person's priors are not an argument against another's posteriors.