Eliezer, are you suggesting that declining to make up one’s mind in the face of a question that (1) we have excellent reason to mistrust our judgement about and (2) we have no actual need to have an answer to is somehow disreputable?
As for your link to the “motivated stopping” article, I don’t quite see why declining to decide on this is any more “stopping” than choosing a definite one of the options. Or are you suggesting that it’s an instance of motivated continuation? Perhaps it is, but (as you said in that article) the problem with excessive “continuation” is that it can waste resources and miss opportunities. I don’t see either of those being an issue here, unless you’re actually threatening to do one of those two things—in which case I declare you a Pascal’s mugger and take no notice.
Eliezer, are you suggesting that declining to make up one’s mind in the face of a question that (1) we have excellent reason to mistrust our judgement about and (2) we have no actual need to have an answer to is somehow disreputable?
As for your link to the “motivated stopping” article, I don’t quite see why declining to decide on this is any more “stopping” than choosing a definite one of the options. Or are you suggesting that it’s an instance of motivated continuation? Perhaps it is, but (as you said in that article) the problem with excessive “continuation” is that it can waste resources and miss opportunities. I don’t see either of those being an issue here, unless you’re actually threatening to do one of those two things—in which case I declare you a Pascal’s mugger and take no notice.