How much havoc do you think a two-hour movie can wreak on your judgment? It will be hard enough to undo the damage by deliberate concentration—why invite the vampire into your house? In Chess or Go, every wasted move is a loss; in rationality, any non-evidential influence is (on average) entropic.
Yet in my estimation, the most damaging aspect of using other authors’ imaginations is that it stops people from using their own
10 years later, post HPMOR, the irony of this is delicious.
Not denying the value of the underlying point—but one could gather from this post that EY is against consuming fiction in general, lest it poison your mind, and particularly against allowing your ideas to be influenced by other author’s ideas.
His current notoriety as one of the most pre-eminent writers of fan-fiction makes this thought amusing.
It’s not very ironic. One aspect of rationalfic is to load you up with examples of more rational behavior than you’ve ever seen in fiction so you have better defaults.
10 years later, post HPMOR, the irony of this is delicious.
Not denying the value of the underlying point—but one could gather from this post that EY is against consuming fiction in general, lest it poison your mind, and particularly against allowing your ideas to be influenced by other author’s ideas.
His current notoriety as one of the most pre-eminent writers of fan-fiction makes this thought amusing.
It’s not very ironic. One aspect of rationalfic is to load you up with examples of more rational behavior than you’ve ever seen in fiction so you have better defaults.