Tfw, in a discussion of the nature of believing, you use as examples some hypothetical people believing random things, and then your mentions are full of people arguing that the example beliefs are true or false.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1206776893124546560 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
David I like to get my hands on this but can't find the hypothetical people discussing hypothetical whatever's it's mostly other people's responses and very little follow-up by Robin Hanson.
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Replying to @HalMorris3
Nothing to do with him orher than it seemed to be an instance of the thing he described?
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Replying to @Meaningness
So he's your poster child? I can get that. The interesting thing is what does he do for his paymaster's agenda? Are he and Tyler Cowen ornaments to raise some admiration to balance some of what they're up to? Kind of like the Bolshoi Ballet in the USSR times?
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Sorry, no, I was unclear. He was apparently saying that many people can't understand abstraction. I was giving a concrete example of that, namely that recently many people were unable to understand that beliefs I used as hypothetical examples were hypothetical.
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