Psy-Kosh comments on The Failures of Eld Science - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 May 2008 10:32AM

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 12 May 2008 07:32:15PM 4 points [-]

Eliezer: what's the "crisis-of-belief" technique you're refering to there? the whole "try to take a while visualizing what if you're wrong/the other view is right, nevermind whether it is or not, just try to figure out what the world would be like, what you'd do if you found out that was really really true, etc etc, to leave yourself an 'out'"? or was that something entirely different, or is that just a made up phrase with no specific technique in mind in particular?

scott: Many? I thought the whole safecracking thing was basically just Feynman. What others did "naughty" stuff and what did they do?