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It is not a dichotomy: you should use as much evidence as you can get your hands on. It is wrong to use strictly outside or strictly inside views, if you can do better using information about both (and, really, there is no strong distinction between different levels of description, some of them more "outsidey", some of them more "insidey"). There are cases when a particular representation is misleading misleading for humans, due to the framing bias and its friends, but it doesn't extend to the general case.

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Level, that seems to be Eliezer's meta-view. It isn't very useful, though; he argued for it by denying the principle of all induction, as I illustrated in the comments on his post on Surface Analogies.

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