pnrjulius comments on Infinite Certainty - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 January 2008 06:49AM

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 09 January 2008 10:10:36AM 0 points [-]

"I'd listen to the argument solely in order to refute it."

Paul refutes the data! Eliezer, an idiot disagreeing with you shouldn't necessarily shift your beliefs at all. By that token, there's no reason to shift your beliefs if the whole world told you 2 + 2 were 3, unless they showed some evidence. I would think it vastly more likely that the whole world was pulling my leg.

Comment author: pnrjulius 27 May 2012 03:41:12AM 1 point [-]

Sometimes I feel like religion is the whole world pulling my leg.