From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 15:30:30 MDT
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> I wrote:
> > This would seem to relate closely to ExI principle 7:
> > "Rational Thinking" -- if one cannot think "rationally"
> > then how can one choose to "change" ones mind?
>
> Rationality is not a question of *how often* you change your mind, but a
> question of *when* you change your mind, how much, and for what reason.
I did not intend my comment to be about the "frequency" of
changing ones mind but about the process one uses to do so.
I think Anders may have hit the nail on the head with his
comments about how we evaluate the data on which the arguments
are based. At some point one has to be able to differentiate
between the people who are citing concrete references and the
people who are simply going yada-yada-yada.
Now, things get slightly more interesting when people are citing
"meta-data" which is somewhat swampy and the alternate case of
citing concrete references that are simply *wrong*.
Robert
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