Robert Morris has a very unusual quality: he’s never wrong. It might seem this would require you to be omniscient, but actually it’s surprisingly easy. Don’t say anything unless you’re fairly sure of it. If you’re not omniscient, you just don’t end up saying much.
More precisely, the trick is to pay careful attention to how you qualify what you say. … He has an almost superhuman integrity. He’s not just generally correct, but also correct about how correct he is.
--Paul Graham
Dupe.
I can’t help but wondering if he’s overcompensating due to a certain incident.
So he’s one of those Fair Witnesses from Stranger in a Strange Land?
Heinlein’s Fair Witnesses show a rationality failure.
It is impossible to report things “just as they are” without imposing implicit interpretation.
All observation and all language depends on an implicit model.
As I recall, Fair Witnesses didn’t ever give probabilities, they talked in binary terms. Morris, on the other hand, sounds calibrated.
They never drew conclusions.