From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jul 27 2002 - 15:54:12 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Louis writes:
>> [snip]
>
> But the psychological difference between us is apparently real,
> as evinced by your last remark: you worry that you'll give too
> much credit to someone who doesn't know what they're talking
> about. Perhaps you have too little faith in your own critical
> faculties, or I have too much faith in mine.
Or you are both well-calibrated, but your critical faculties *are*
stronger than his. If so, the interesting question is how they got that
way. Could practice have something to do with it?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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