Stabilizer comments on Rationality Quotes July 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 18 July 2014 07:50:02PM *  14 points [-]

Always train your doubt most strongly on those ideas that you really want to be true.

Sean Carroll in his blog post describing why it is a bit premature to declare that Einstein's General Relativity has been experimentally proven to be incomplete, even if it would be very exciting if so.

Comment author: Stabilizer 20 July 2014 11:14:36PM 2 points [-]

In other words, use the emotional power of doubt to counteract the bias induced by the emotional power of your desire for that theory to be true.