It’s possible that LW people are the “nerds” I mean here, and normal nerds don’t have beliefs either, as you say...It’s hard for me to distinguish between how much I owe to LW and how much is instinctive.
But, since well before LW, I was always explicitly willing to sacrifice any belief, like my God belief, if there was no reason to hold it. There’s that, at least; I think there are meaningful instinctive differences
Indeed, we were talking about rationalists (not only LW, but SlateStarCodex too for instance).
I think there are meaningful instinctive differences too, but that’s not the point, is it ? If it was, then we can assume that people holds beliefs too. Sometime they change their beliefs too because of reasons (or lack thereof).
It’s possible that LW people are the “nerds” I mean here, and normal nerds don’t have beliefs either, as you say...It’s hard for me to distinguish between how much I owe to LW and how much is instinctive.
But, since well before LW, I was always explicitly willing to sacrifice any belief, like my God belief, if there was no reason to hold it. There’s that, at least; I think there are meaningful instinctive differences
Indeed, we were talking about rationalists (not only LW, but SlateStarCodex too for instance).
I think there are meaningful instinctive differences too, but that’s not the point, is it ? If it was, then we can assume that people holds beliefs too. Sometime they change their beliefs too because of reasons (or lack thereof).