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Grognor comments on What epistemic hygiene norms should there be? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 21 March 2012 07:26PM

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Comment author: Grognor 22 March 2012 09:02:10PM 1 point [-]

This is a special case of "leave a line of retreat."

No, it is not. Leaving a line of retreat is about imagining possible worlds where one of your beliefs is false.

Comment author: Daniel_Starr 23 March 2012 12:27:20AM 1 point [-]

Oops. Yah. It's related, in the sense of "lower the pressure to insist that you're right", but it's not the same. Fixed.