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My impression is quite different, not in the sense that your comment is incorrect but that the > > Who try really hard to reason properly is not in my opinion
by afiori 2y ago
My impression is quite different, not in the sense that your comment is incorrect but that the
> > Who try really hard to reason properly
is not in my opinion the distinctive element of the group.
I think that the parent would have been more correct had he written
> who try really hard to apply reasoning to areas people often don't reason about.
As this implies an entirely different class of actions.
- nullc 2y agoHm. So I think if you define reasoning broadly -- as in collecting relevant data, enumerating and raking priorities, thinking through expected consequences... people do engage in this quite often in all areas of life, far more often than lesswrongers would credit. If you define it more narrowly, as in using particular techniques that are popular to talk about in that community like bayes theorem, updating priors and so on-- then indeed it's not common but it's also not practiced by practically any of the community members. I would say that there is a mix of both definitions in use in those communities, but for the former people already do it often and for the latter not even the lesswrongers do (with a few exceptions).