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CronoDAS comments on Anthropics doesn't explain why the Cold War stayed Cold - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: CronoDAS 20 August 2014 08:44:50PM *  5 points [-]

I don't believe in anthropic reasoning.

More elaborately: Considering how confused it makes everyone, any arguments based on anthropic reasoning are very likely to miss taking that left turn at Albuquerque and end up in Outer Mongolia rather than arriving at true conclusions. So I don't pay attention to it.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 20 August 2014 09:52:19PM 5 points [-]

Of course you would say that. If you believed otherwise, you would have said something else.

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 August 2014 10:03:41PM 1 point [-]

True, but what does that have to do with anything? ;)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 August 2014 02:04:54AM 2 points [-]

I think "don't believe in" should be reserved for stronger forms than disbelief in the success of the typical application.

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