Eliezer: The distinction between direct observation and deduction is pretty ambiguous for a Bayesian, is it not?
Also, MANY rationalists advocate “giving people the benefit of the doubt” which for them implies “behaving as if all people are reasonable and fair?”. Furthermore, almost all rationalists, you for instance, advocate stating literally true beliefs towards people rather than stating the beliefs that you have most reason to expect to be most informative or to produce the best results. MANY people refrain from becoming more rational out of fear that they would have to do the same and out of justified belief that doing so would cripple their efficacy in life.
James Miller: Good call!
That point about non-lawyers deserves a post of its own somewhere? I seriously wonder where they got that idea. Strangest of all, they seem to have generalized that misconception to invent the “laws of nature” which really are literal.
Paul Crowley: Both my wife and I have had brief phases when we were atheists of the type you question exists.
Eliezer: The distinction between direct observation and deduction is pretty ambiguous for a Bayesian, is it not? Also, MANY rationalists advocate “giving people the benefit of the doubt” which for them implies “behaving as if all people are reasonable and fair?”. Furthermore, almost all rationalists, you for instance, advocate stating literally true beliefs towards people rather than stating the beliefs that you have most reason to expect to be most informative or to produce the best results. MANY people refrain from becoming more rational out of fear that they would have to do the same and out of justified belief that doing so would cripple their efficacy in life.
James Miller: Good call! That point about non-lawyers deserves a post of its own somewhere? I seriously wonder where they got that idea. Strangest of all, they seem to have generalized that misconception to invent the “laws of nature” which really are literal.
Paul Crowley: Both my wife and I have had brief phases when we were atheists of the type you question exists.