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Leave beliefs that don't constrain experience alone
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This is my shortform feed (h/t Hazard and Raemon, thanks!). This is for thoughts that are short or half-baked or both.
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This is my shortform feed (h/t Hazard and Raemon, thanks!). This is for thoughts that are short or half-baked or both.
Epistemic effort: I wrote this on a plane flight. I'm often interested in Ribbonfarmian "consider a bad thing. What if it's good? (Here's my favorite example of this.) As regards updating my beliefs, I'm drawn to motivated snobbery. "Motivated" means "this belief improves my experiences;" "snobbery" means "with this belief,...
Epistemic status: This is the first time I've expressed these thoughts. I've thought for a long time that people do their jobs well, and are numbskulls in every other area of life. Here I say that it's OK to be a numbskull. I read Raising the Sanity Waterline some time...