Stephen_Cole comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong
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Well, lesbians certainly seem to be disproportionately represented among women with scholarly inclinations.
Edit: and an even higher proportion of women who stay single.
Source? Or just your n = 1 observation?
Well, where would you guess a larger fraction of people to be openly homosexual, in New England or in Appalachia? In which of the two would you guess more people go to college?
This is not evidence, this is opinion. Granted, good evidence on these points is hard to come by. But treating opinion like fact is detrimental to communication.
Seems my opinions differ from yours. We have different utility functions with respect to these issues. You get yours, I get mine. On any joint decision for a shared utility we each get weight 1/n.
I pose we should spend our time/resources not arguing about our utilities, but collecting high-quality evidence to improve the probability portions of our MEU.
I didn't say anything about utilities.