It’s worse here, because for some reason when people like Marshall claim that “rationalist” means “treats any old crap like it was a worthy contribution”, people here are sufficiently wary of confirmation bias to take it more seriously than it deserves.
(Blinks.)
I have to say, that frame on the whole problem had never occurred to me. No wonder online communities have such a hard time developing membranes.
It’s worse here, because for some reason when people like Marshall claim that “rationalist” means “treats any old crap like it was a worthy contribution”, people here are sufficiently wary of confirmation bias to take it more seriously than it deserves.
Yeah, I’ve noticed. If I were to make a list of the top 3 rationalist errors, they’d be overconfidence, overcomplication, and underconfidence.
Either that or there’s some kind of ancient echo of protecting the underdog in effort to keep the tribal power balance.