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30 Post author: Eneasz 25 January 2012 09:51PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 26 January 2012 01:12:15AM *  42 points [-]

"Did you just generalize from fictional evidence?"

"You're a one-boxer, right?" (Said with no context.)

"You'd choose specks, right?" (Said with no context.)

"Mysteriousness is not a property of a thing."

"You're running on corrupted hardware."

"Replace the symbol with the substance."

"Could you regenerate that knowledge?"

"Consider a group you feel prejudiced against, frequentists for example."

"But what's the best textbook on that subject?"

"Is that a compartmentalized belief?

"I notice I am confused."

"Of course I have super-powers. Everyone does."

"Beliefs are properly probabilistic."

"Is that your confidence level inside or outside the argument?"

"Did you credibly pre-commit to that rule?"

"That's just what it feels like from the inside."

"Conceptspace is bigger than you imagine."

"No you don't believe you believe that."

"No, money is the unit of caring."

"If that doesn't work out for you, you can still make six figures as a programmer."

"Purpose is not an inherent property."

"You think introspection is reliable?"

"Why didn't you use log-odds?"

Bullshit Rationalists Say:

"My priors are different than yours, and under them my posterior belief is justified. There is no belief that can be said to be irrational regardless of priors, and my belief is rational under mine."

"I pattern matched what you said rather than either apply the principle of charity or estimate the chances of your not having an opinion marking you as ignorant, unreasoning, and/or innately evil."

"Rational..." (used in the title of a post on any topic.)

Shit and Bullshit Rationalists Don't Say:

"You're entitled to your opinion."

"You can't be too skeptical"

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"Did you read what Kurzweil wrote about the Singularity?

"100%."

"But was it statistically significant at the p<.05 level?"

"Yeah, I read all the papers cited in lukeprog's latest article."

Comment author: XFrequentist 26 January 2012 07:54:18PM 1 point [-]

The last section is amazing!