douglas comments on Purpose and Pragmatism - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 November 2007 06:51AM

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Comment author: douglas 26 November 2007 08:55:02AM 0 points [-]

Eliezer- I like these ideas. I’m thinking a possible distinction between a seeker (one attempting to overcome bias) and a dogmatist (one attempting to defend bias) would be that a seeker takes a pragmatic rationality and looks for exceptions (thereby continuing to look for the deeper epistemic rationality) whereas a dogmatist takes a pragmatic rationality and turns it into an epistemic rationality by ignoring or redefining exceptions. Am I understanding?