Kawoomba comments on Rationality Quotes January 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 24 January 2015 06:33:14PM *  1 point [-]

I truly am torn on the matter. LW has caused a good amount of self-modification away from that position, not in the sense of diminishing the arguments' credence, but in the sense of "so what, that's not the belief I want to hold" (which, while generally quite dangerous, may be necessary with a few select "holy belief cows")*.

That personal information notwithstanding, I don't think we should only present arguments supporting positions we are convinced of. That -- given a somewhat homogeneous group composition -- would amount to an echo chamber, and in any case knock out Aumann's agreement theorem.

* Ironic, is it not? Analogous to "shut up and do the impossible" a case of instrumental versus epistemic rationality.