KaynanK comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KaynanK 02 November 2013 02:05:43AM 0 points [-]

So he's one of those Fair Witnesses from Stranger in a Strange Land?

Comment author: JoshuaFox 03 November 2013 08:52:36AM * 3 points [-]

Heinlein's Fair Witnesses show a rationality failure.

It is impossible to report things "just as they are" without imposing implicit interpretation.

All observation and all language depends on an implicit model.

Comment author: gwern 02 November 2013 02:26:40AM 0 points [-]

As I recall, Fair Witnesses didn't ever give probabilities, they talked in binary terms. Morris, on the other hand, sounds calibrated.

Comment author: shminux 02 November 2013 03:39:46AM 0 points [-]

They never drew conclusions.