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alienist comments on Why do you really believe what you believe regarding controversial subjects? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: iarwain1 04 January 2015 02:32PM

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Comment author: alienist 05 January 2015 02:30:15AM 9 points [-]

Look at past predictions by the "experts" and compare them to what actually happened. If the experts are proposing courses of action did their previous proposals work? What is the field's analog of "I believe physicists know what they're talking about because airplanes fly"?