[extropy-chat] Re: Overconfidence and meta-rationality

[Russell Wallace]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:48:51 -0800, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
<sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
> Thus, I still think that people who disagree should, pragmatically, go
> on arguing with each other about the matter of interest, instead of
> immediately compromising based on a belief in the probable rationality
> of the other.

I agree completely! This is partly why my only remark on the big
thread of whose penis^Wrationality is bigger than the other, was that
the argument that rational people can't disagree is full of it; the
thread was pretty much a waste of bandwidth.

Arguments about actual technical matters, however, can well be worthwhile.

So if the two of you choose to present your arguments about technical
matters, I'll be happy to read and chip in whenever I think I have
something useful to say.

- Russell