27chaos comments on The Puzzle of Faith and Belief - LessWrong

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Comment author: 27chaos 29 September 2014 05:03:17AM *  2 points [-]

Is the intended point simply that people have more confidence in their beliefs than would be optimal? People should change their assumptions more often and see what happens?

Comment author: ShannonFriedman 29 September 2014 05:12:52AM *  1 point [-]

One of several. I wrote a couple of others here. In retrospect, it is a very good point that I was writing my thoughts more than writing to a specific conclusion, and that I made a writing error in not specifying an action oriented conclusion.

I want to add one in, but since there are actually several different points I'm making in the article, I need to think it through and decide which to include or not in the official conclusion.

I somewhat wish I could help many people on this site learn to be a lot nicer about pointing these things out, as you have been here. However, as they would say to me, it is my choice to post on this site, and thus to the degree I'm here, I it behooves me to play by, or at least tolerate, the cultural rules.