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This is an extremely important lesson and I am grateful that you are trying to teach it.
In my experience it is almost impossible to actually succeed in teaching it, because you are fighting against human nature, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
(A few objections based on personal taste: Too flowery, does not get to the point fast enough, last paragraph teaches false lesson on cleverness)
What exactly do you believe the false lesson to be and why do you think it's false?
I interpreted it as meaning one should take into account your prior for whether someone with a gambling machine is telling the truth about how the machine works.
Hm, a fair point, I did not take the context into account.
My objection there is based on my belief that Less Wrong over-emphasizes cleverness, as opposed to what Yudkowsky calls 'winning'. I see too many people come up with clever ways to justify their existing beliefs, or being contrarian purely to sound clever, and I think it's terribly harmful.