multifoliaterose comments on Goals for which Less Wrong does (and doesn’t) help

[multifoliaterose]

Thanks for making this post. I especially like the paragraph:

There is similarly no easy way to use the “try it and see” method to sort out what ethics and meta-ethics to endorse, or what long-term human outcomes are likely, how you can have a positive impact on the distant poor, or which retirement investments really will be safe bets for the next forty years. For these goals we are forced to use reasoning, as failure-prone as human reasoning is. If the issue is tricky enough, we’re forced to additionally develop our skill at reasoning—to develop “epistemic rationality”.