
"Basics of Rationalist Discourse" by Duncan Sabien
LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
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The Fifth Guideline Request
You could think of a conversational environment as one in which defection strategies are rampant. Many would-be cooperators have been trained and traumatised into hair-triggered affection by repeated sad experience. How could I demonstrate to them via my own behaviour that it's actually correct to treat me as a collaborative truth-seeker? Here are some ways you might feel when you're about to break the fifth guideline. It's more important to settle this one than to get all the little fiddly details right, or there's no way that they could have been unaware of the implication of what they said. Maintain at least two hypotheses consistent with the available information. Or be ready
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