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This is quoted a lot at the beginning of my favorite LessWrong article, “Truly Part if You”, in particular: >As McDermott says, “The whole problem is getting t
by SilasX 7y ago
This is quoted a lot at the beginning of my favorite LessWrong article, “Truly Part if You”, in particular:
>As McDermott says, “The whole problem is getting the hearer to notice what it has been told. Not ‘understand,’ but ‘notice.’ ” Suppose that instead the physicist told you, “Light is made of little curvy things.” Would you notice any difference of anticipated experience?
>How can you realize that you shouldn’t trust your seeming knowledge that “light is waves”? One test you could apply is asking, “Could I regenerate this knowledge if it were somehow deleted from my mind?”
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fg9fXrHpeaDD6pEPL/truly-part-of-you https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fg9fXrHpeaDD6pEPL/truly-part...
- seisvelas 7y agoI haven't seen LessWrong mentioned in quite some time! I remember the first time I heard about them, from this article in Harper's: https://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want-to-live/3/ https://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/come-with-us-if-you-want... LessWrong is great as intellectually stimulating entertainment but I don't think they are actually any good at all for making people more rational.
- jacquesm 7y agoI think the bigger problem there is that they take themselves entirely too serious. It all comes across as bombastic and mostly based on wishful thinking. Nice intro material but you can't build a castle on a thin foundation like that.