[extropy-chat] Mature rationality

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:

> 
> Not at all.  I am saying that whatever your pursuit or enjoyment, you
> should never knowingly accept a falsehood, nor assign a confidence
> too high for the evidence, nor use rules other than rationality in
> deciding what to believe.  It is okay to read science fiction novels,
> so long as you assign accurate probabilities to all the events
> described therein.

If everybody followed eliezers rules, nobody would ever bet against the
house... what a FUN world THAT would be, eh?



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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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