It was old rationalist cannon—if you can say the opposite and it doesn’t mean anything, did you say anything in the first place? I thought it was applause lights or near there but I can’t find it now.
Both “believing true things and making good choices” and “believing false things and making bad choices” constrain anticipation. For example, someone doing the former more often is more likely to do well on a math test than someone doing the latter more often. They are both meaningful. The thing that they aren’t is controversial. One feels like an obviously good idea and the other feels like an obviously bad idea. (note: I said “feels like an obviously good idea” instead of “obviously is a good idea” because of the whole sacrifice element Qiaochu_Yuan brought up.)
It was old rationalist cannon—if you can say the opposite and it doesn’t mean anything, did you say anything in the first place? I thought it was applause lights or near there but I can’t find it now.
Both “believing true things and making good choices” and “believing false things and making bad choices” constrain anticipation. For example, someone doing the former more often is more likely to do well on a math test than someone doing the latter more often. They are both meaningful. The thing that they aren’t is controversial. One feels like an obviously good idea and the other feels like an obviously bad idea. (note: I said “feels like an obviously good idea” instead of “obviously is a good idea” because of the whole sacrifice element Qiaochu_Yuan brought up.)
Yes. We are saying similar things. He was clearer.