FeepingCreature comments on Rationality Quotes Thread February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 06 February 2015 01:25:13PM *  4 points [-]

Yeah but it's also easy to falsely label a genuine problem as "practically already solved". The proof is in the pudding.

The next day, the novice approached Ougi and related the events, and said, "Master, I am constantly consumed by worry that this is all really a cult, and that your teachings are only dogma." Ougi replied, "If you find a hammer lying in the road and sell it, you may ask a low price or a high one. But if you keep the hammer and use it to drive nails, who can doubt its worth?"

--Two Cult Koans

Conversely, to show the worth of clarity you actually have to go drive some nails with it.

Comment author: pjeby 07 February 2015 06:01:36PM 4 points [-]

Yeah but it's also easy to falsely label a genuine problem as "practically already solved".

Yeah... but then that's your second problem. ;-)

And that problem exists only in the map, and can be resolved by getting clarity. ;-)

Comment author: FeepingCreature 07 February 2015 08:00:20PM 2 points [-]

Haha. True!