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DanielLC comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: polymathwannabe 11 August 2015 01:24PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 12 August 2015 05:47:35PM 2 points [-]

In other words, laziness and overconfidence bias cancel each other out, and getting rid of the second without getting rid of the first will cause problems?

Comment author: cousin_it 12 August 2015 06:20:48PM *  1 point [-]

Yes, if you think Hume's problem was laziness :-)