Nornagest comments on Stupid questions thread, October 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 15 October 2015 08:06:20PM *  2 points [-]

If you find yourself so engrossed with abstract epistemic considerations that you can't deal with concrete ones, it may be time to start wondering how much instrumental rationality your approach to this epistemic rationality thing is buying you.

The best players of any game usually do a lot of systematizing, but there is such a thing as too much meta.