mwengler comments on Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: Will_Newsome 06 July 2014 09:34AM

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Comment author: mwengler 06 July 2014 11:42:31AM *  6 points [-]

(Will edited his comment to change "...kinda epistemic state..." to "...kinda decision theoretic state..." I mention this because I think my response makes epsilon more sense w.r.t. his original comment -mw)

THe unexamined life may not be worth living. It is bad logic to infer from this that the examined life is any different.

Similarly, my not liking the fact that I don't know is hardly evidence that I really do know.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 06 July 2014 11:46:02AM 2 points [-]

Fair enough. I share that perspective. I guess mostly I'm imagining that it becomes hard to criticize those who do jump off the bridge.

Comment author: mwengler 06 July 2014 12:32:46PM 3 points [-]

Hard to criticise, perhaps, but worth the effort. The best criticisms are the hard criticisms done well. That we do not get an A for effort alone does not suggest that we get an A without effort.