Vladimir_Nesov2 comments on Rationalization - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 September 2007 07:29PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov2 01 October 2007 05:37:04PM 0 points [-]

Eliezer: An intuitive guess is non-scientific but not non-rational

It doesn't affect my point; but do you argue that intuitive reasoning can be made free of bias?

Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2013 09:13:37PM 0 points [-]

An intuitive guess can be made without biasing the result (accept or reject), so long as one does not privilege the hypothesis.