AnneC comments on Do We Believe Everything We're Told? - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 October 2007 11:52PM

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Comment author: AnneC 11 October 2007 03:52:40AM 1 point [-]

Spinoza suggested that we first passively accept a proposition in the course of comprehending it, and only afterward actively disbelieve propositions which are rejected by consideration.

That sounds like what Sam Adams was saying at the Singularity Summit -- the idea of "superstition" being essential to learning in some respects.