Recovering_irrationalist comments on Fake Selfishness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Recovering_irrationalist 12 November 2007 12:05:30PM 2 points [-]

While I wish I had something reassuring to say on this subject, you should probably be quite disturbed if you find my work from 1997 sounding as persuasive as my work from 2007

But I said...

Although I was convinced by very few of those older mistakes (before I searched and found retractions) that could just as easily mean new arguments got super persuasive rather than super accurate.

All my comments mean in practice is that even though once I study and investigate your (new) arguments they nearly always seem to me to be right, I won't let myself start lazily suspending critical judgment and investigation of your beliefs before adopting them. I hope you agree that's a good thing.