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ChristianKl comments on The 12 Second Rule (i.e. think before answering) and other Epistemic Norms - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: Raemon 05 September 2016 11:08PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 07 September 2016 09:52:07AM 1 point [-]

Even in spaces where truth seeking is valued, time is valuable as well. When I sit together with a bunch of rationalists and the discussion is about what to cook for dinner there no benefit to waiting very long and it's quite okay when someone makes a reasonable decision to cook in a cached way.

Comment author: Raemon 07 September 2016 02:34:25PM 1 point [-]

Agreed.

I think I should probably reverse my original statement to "where intelligence/creativity/truthseeking is important" (similar sentence but narrows it down the focus - group intelligence and creativity usually don't matter for picking food, unless several people care about getting unusual/interesting food and roughly agree with each other on what kind to get)

The metanorm of "figure out what norm to use" is still important. But I do still assert that "the 12 second rule is a norm that should be used much more often i.e. at all in most rationalist discussion spaces"