One Argument Against An Army — LessWrong

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I talked about a style of reasoning in which not a single contrary argument is allowed, with the result that every non-supporting observation has to…

x One Argument Against An Army — LessWrong Against Rationalization Motivated Reasoning Rationalization Frontpage 127 One Argument Against An Army by Eliezer Yudkowsky 15th Aug 2007 2 min read 37 127 I talked about a style of reasoning in which not a single contrary argument is allowed, with the result that every non-supporting observation has to be argued away. Here I suggest that when people encounter a contrary argument, they prevent themselves from downshifting their confidence by rehearsing already-known support. Suppose the country of Freedonia is debating whether its neighbor, Sylvania,

One Argument Against An Army — LessWrong

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