torekp comments on Self-Congratulatory Rationalism - Less Wrong

51 Post author: ChrisHallquist 01 March 2014 08:52AM

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Comment author: torekp 06 March 2014 01:42:38AM 0 points [-]

Track record of saying reasonable things once again seems to put the burden of decision on your subjective feelings and so rule out paying attention to people you disagree with.

Counterexample: your own investigation of natural law theology. Another: your investigation of the Alzheimer's bacterium hypothesis. I'd say your own intellectual history nicely demonstrates just how to pull off the seemingly impossible feat of detecting reasonable people you disagree with.