RichardKennaway comments on The Ten Commandments of Rationality - Less Wrong

-5 Post author: Sophronius 30 March 2014 04:36PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 31 March 2014 04:01:13PM 2 points [-]

Thank you for that brevity. It makes clear, what can then also be seen in the original, a striking omission: any injunction to pursue the truth, to make one's beliefs correspond with reality. Which highlights the problem with (4): updating towards consistency -- also called decompartmentalising -- while neglecting to update towards reality is a short road to crackpottery.