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Romashka comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stephen_Cole 10 August 2015 02:05:07PM 1 point [-]

"Irrationality is intellectual violence against which the pacifism of rationality may or may not be an adequate weapon."

  • Jack Good, Good Thinking, page 25.
Comment author: Romashka 12 August 2015 06:03:16PM 1 point [-]

What would be an adequate weapon, then? Pavlovian training to follow the rationality to the best of one's abilities?

Comment author: Stephen_Cole 16 August 2015 07:26:42PM 1 point [-]

Great question. I believe Jack Good's answer was his "type 2 rationality", which implies a Bayes/non-Bayes synthesis, semiparametric statistics, and nondogmatism.