Eugine_Nier 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: jkaufman 23 January 2014 11:28:13PM *  3 points [-]

Except the people who are signed up and the people who think it's less likely to work are not the same people. For example, I meet the criteria for "experienced lesswronger", and I am both not signed up for cryonics and think it's very unlikely to work. There are similarly other people in the Boston meetup group who are signed up and think it's somewhat likely to work. It's only mysterious if you assume we're homogenous.

Comment author: itaibn0 24 January 2014 01:44:11AM *  0 points [-]

Yes, that's another possible explanation, and here's yet another one. I'm not saying the Yvain's theory is correct, only that Lalartu's comment fails to fully account for the situation Yvain describes (though their later comment seems to make up for it if I understood it correctly).