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Russell's teapot
AI explaining Bertrand Russel to me:
... See moreBertrand Russell, the renowned British philosopher, mathematician and Nobel laureate, published "A History of Western Philosophy" in 1945. The book provides a survey of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to early 20th century philosophers. One criticism sometimes leveled at Russell's work is that he gives
Michael Dean added
This is why rationalists put such a heavy premium on the paradoxical-seeming claim that a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise.
from Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky