27chaos comments on Rationality Quotes Thread March 2015 - Less Wrong
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It's a heuristic, not an automatic rule. Excluding religion and aesthetics, I can't think of any cases where it doesn't work. There are probably some which I just haven't thought of, but there certainly aren't very many.
I mentioned homeopathy above.
You don't have a small natural intuition in your brain saying that homeopathy makes sense? I do, although of course I ignore it.
I don't think that's the same thing as being able to construct a coherent argument.