I think there’s a general sense that descriptive frameworks alone don’t help you to improve thinking. As a result CFAR doesn’t teach people a bunch of concept about cognitive biases but techniques of how to think. CFAR does list the academic research relevant to their exercises in their work book but those exercises don’t just rest on reading the literature but also on practical application.
The the existince that there’s now boosting decision making in academia, the papers are not widely read in the rationality community.
Valentine’s In praise of fake frameworks seem to me widely accepted and plenty of rationalists prefer useful frameworks and are okay with them not being on a ground level supported.
I just read fake frameworks and I still just feel like I’m being interpreted as asking a different question than I am asking. If the frameworks are ultimately fake then that’s fine. I just want to know what the frameworks are and where they come from. I’m asking “Why do you believe what you believe?” and was expecting the answer to take the form of citations of cognitive/experimental psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology. Is that not the kind of answer I should be expecting?
I think there’s a general sense that descriptive frameworks alone don’t help you to improve thinking. As a result CFAR doesn’t teach people a bunch of concept about cognitive biases but techniques of how to think. CFAR does list the academic research relevant to their exercises in their work book but those exercises don’t just rest on reading the literature but also on practical application.
The the existince that there’s now boosting decision making in academia, the papers are not widely read in the rationality community.
Valentine’s In praise of fake frameworks seem to me widely accepted and plenty of rationalists prefer useful frameworks and are okay with them not being on a ground level supported.
I just read fake frameworks and I still just feel like I’m being interpreted as asking a different question than I am asking. If the frameworks are ultimately fake then that’s fine. I just want to know what the frameworks are and where they come from. I’m asking “Why do you believe what you believe?” and was expecting the answer to take the form of citations of cognitive/experimental psychology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology. Is that not the kind of answer I should be expecting?