What exactly do you believe the false lesson to be and why do you think it’s false?
I interpreted it as meaning one should take into account your prior for whether someone with a gambling machine is telling the truth about how the machine works.
Hm, a fair point, I did not take the context into account.
My objection there is based on my belief that Less Wrong over-emphasizes cleverness, as opposed to what Yudkowsky calls ‘winning’. I see too many people come up with clever ways to justify their existing beliefs, or being contrarian purely to sound clever, and I think it’s terribly harmful.
What exactly do you believe the false lesson to be and why do you think it’s false?
I interpreted it as meaning one should take into account your prior for whether someone with a gambling machine is telling the truth about how the machine works.
Hm, a fair point, I did not take the context into account.
My objection there is based on my belief that Less Wrong over-emphasizes cleverness, as opposed to what Yudkowsky calls ‘winning’. I see too many people come up with clever ways to justify their existing beliefs, or being contrarian purely to sound clever, and I think it’s terribly harmful.