arundelo comments on The Danger of Stories - LessWrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 08 November 2009 04:45:59PM *  0 points [-]

I got as far as "some things actually are good versus evil, we all know this, right?" at 4:00, and lost all respect for the man. I didn't watch the rest.

Other than how we treat them, what's the difference between a story and a theory or hypothesis?

Edit: I'm guessing from the downvote that I may've been misunderstood. The above question is not rhetorical; it's intended to spark conversation.

Comment author: arundelo 01 December 2009 03:40:54PM 1 point [-]

Cowen on "The limits of good vs. evil thinking":

Good vs. evil thinking causes us to lower our value of a person's opinion, or dismiss it altogether, if we find out that person has behaved badly. We no longer wish to affiliate with those people and furthermore we feel epistemically justified in dismissing them.

Sometimes this tendency will lead us to intellectual mistakes.