After doing a bit more reading here and thinking about your comments, I think I’ll focus on the 7 methods and eliminate much of the low quality fluff that make up the intro/conclusion for the next version.
I think some of my confusion was due to unsubstantiated assumptions about the standard views of LessWrong. What I’ve been thinking of bias is closer to Inductive bias than the standard definition, which refers to error patterns. I then interpreted rationality as “overcoming bias”. Inductive bias can be useful, and the idea of overcoming bias of that type seemed to be taking things too far. That doesn’t seem to be what anyone is actually advocating here though.
After doing a bit more reading here and thinking about your comments, I think I’ll focus on the 7 methods and eliminate much of the low quality fluff that make up the intro/conclusion for the next version.
I think some of my confusion was due to unsubstantiated assumptions about the standard views of LessWrong. What I’ve been thinking of bias is closer to Inductive bias than the standard definition, which refers to error patterns. I then interpreted rationality as “overcoming bias”. Inductive bias can be useful, and the idea of overcoming bias of that type seemed to be taking things too far. That doesn’t seem to be what anyone is actually advocating here though.
Again, thanks.