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OrphanWilde comments on Falsifiable and non-Falsifiable Ideas - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: shaih 19 February 2013 02:24AM

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Comment author: shaih 19 February 2013 04:51:06AM 0 points [-]

Good point, I often find myself torn between epistemic rationality as a terminal value and its alternative. My thoughts are learning how to treat truth as the highest goal would be more useful to my career in physics and would be better for the world then if I currently steered to my closer less important values.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 19 February 2013 03:52:29PM 2 points [-]

If you're justifying a terminal value, it's not your real terminal value.

Comment author: wedrifid 19 February 2013 06:13:48PM *  2 points [-]

If you're justifying a terminal value, it's not your real terminal value.

(Doesn't strictly follow. People can and do justify things that they don't need to justify all the time. It does imply confusion.)