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ChristianKl comments on Stupid Questions September 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 08 September 2016 09:16:03PM 1 point [-]

Rationality is about not simply taking up believes unfiltered but evaluating claims of other people before you believe in them. Not doing that would seem to miss the point on a general level.

Comment author: Gurkenglas 09 September 2016 05:45:18PM *  0 points [-]

Accepting conclusions that have been accepted by a sufficient number of marginally trustworthy people is not necessarily a bad heuristic. He might gain more from dogma if he won't persevere through the reading, though a list that people are publically being pointed to could lead to people pointing fingers, saying "cult".

Comment author: ChristianKl 10 September 2016 09:24:44AM 0 points [-]

I think the value of the sequences is that they change heuristics of thinking that many people who read them use. I would guess that you don't get that value by simply reading conclusions.