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So a sufficiently confident idiot is equivalent to https://xkcd.com/54/ https://xkcd.com/54/ ?
by schmidtleonard 1y ago
So a sufficiently confident idiot is equivalent to https://xkcd.com/54/ https://xkcd.com/54/ ?
- o11c 1y agoWell, I would have suggested an experiment, but if we're still at the "idiot" phase that might be a bit premature. Instead, I'll offer some general questions that can be answered without experiments, only research. For each faith X: 0. Note that each line depends on previous lines. 1. Who and what defines X-ism? 2. How exactly do you determine if someone is an X-ist? 3. What immediate claims does X-ism make about you, me, X-ists, non-X-ists, people at large, the world in general, etc. 4. What are the greater (long-term, conceptual, metaphysical, etc.) implications of 3? 5. If X is true, what prior assumptions and values will I have to discard? Am I willing to do so? 6. What kind of signal-to-noise ratio can I expect due to uncertainties when calculating the above in practice?