I read that as recommending a technique to withhold judgement on something while you’re reading it, which can be a useful rationality technique- provided of course you remember the reasons you’re using it and don’t turn it into subjective reality.
It reminds me of my attitude when reading, for example, Yvain’s writing on Neo-Reactionary thought. I pretty much read that sort of thing with the attitude of “this is a really interesting hypothetical alternate universe where my beliefs are wrong and I don’t’ know it”- my hope being that allows me to incorporate that sort of idea more easily, which means that if my beliefs actually are* wrong on something like that, I’d have an easier time realizing it.
I read that as recommending a technique to withhold judgement on something while you’re reading it, which can be a useful rationality technique- provided of course you remember the reasons you’re using it and don’t turn it into subjective reality. It reminds me of my attitude when reading, for example, Yvain’s writing on Neo-Reactionary thought. I pretty much read that sort of thing with the attitude of “this is a really interesting hypothetical alternate universe where my beliefs are wrong and I don’t’ know it”- my hope being that allows me to incorporate that sort of idea more easily, which means that if my beliefs actually are* wrong on something like that, I’d have an easier time realizing it.
*http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/