MugaSofer comments on Rationalists Are Less Credulous But Better At Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Yvain 21 January 2014 02:18AM

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Comment author: MugaSofer 21 January 2014 07:35:00PM 1 point [-]

Oh, indeed! Sorry, I didn't mean to state that they proved his point or anything like that. I was just observing that they do seem to fit the criteria listed in the original comment Yvain was replying to.

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 21 January 2014 07:51:05PM 0 points [-]

Well... my point is that they do not, in fact, fit the criteria — specifically, criterion #2 — in the case of people who haven't considered these ideas as options.

Comment author: MugaSofer 22 January 2014 09:13:55AM 1 point [-]

Really?

Unless they're not considering them as options because they wouldn't work for them (e.g. not having the necessary resources/connections, being risk-averse, having a different utility function, etc.), but rather because they're unusual in some fashion...

I guess perhaps you weren't clear on why, exactly, you wanted them to have been ignored?