From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2006 - 12:09:54 MDT
Failure to allow one's intelligence to over-ride one's instincts.
This seems to me to be different from refusal to accept a
mathematical proof place in front of oneself.
-Robin
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:02:56PM -0400, Michael Vassar wrote:
>
> I don't want to go "is too! is not!" but really what do You call
> it when someone refuses to believe the explanation of the Monty
> Hall problem?
>
> >From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>
> >Reply-To: sl4@sl4.org
> >To: sl4@sl4.org
> >Subject: Re: [agi] Two draft papers: AI and existential risk; heuristics
> >and biases
> >Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:33:29 -0700
> >
> >That's not the same as refusing to believe that the *math* in
> >Bayes Theorem is correct.
> >
> >-Robin
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Michael Vassar wrote:
> >> You haven't Ben? How many scientists have you shown the Monty Hall
> >problem
> >> only to have them refuse to believe the correct answer even after you
> >have
> >> explained it to them? None? Really? You should try it? How many
> >> scientists can even do a Wason selection task?
> >>
> >> >I have never met a scientist who did not accept Bayes Theorem as a
> >> >piece of mathematics.
> >>
> >>
> >
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