For a long time I thought ppl were saying dumb things about rationality, until I realized they were using a different definition of rationality from me. I think their definition is something like "If social consensus is that an idea is unpromising, then that idea is irrational"https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1090608908534800384 …
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Yup. Same thing for scientists who "irrationally" refuse to give up on a theory when it seems to be contradicted by experimental results. Sometimes, a good scientist's intuitions - e.g., about the predictive value of "beauty" or "elegance" in a theory - turn out to be correct
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