If this is intended as a summary of the post, I’d say it doesn’t quite seem to capture what I was getting at. If I had to give my own one-paragraph summary, it would be this:
There’s a thing people (including me) sometimes do, where they (unreflectively) assume that the conclusions of motivated reasoning are always wrong, and dismiss them out of hand. That seems like a bad plan. Instead, try going into System II mode and reexamining conclusions you think might be the result of motivated reasoning, rather than immediately dismissing them. This isn’t to say that System II processes are completely immune to motivated reasoning, far from it, but “apply extra scrutiny” seems like a better strategy than “dismiss out of hand.”
Something that was in the background of the post, but I don’t think I adequately brought out, is that this habit of [automatically dismissing anything that seems like it might be the result of motivated reasoning] can lead to decision paralysis and pathological self-doubt. The point of this post is to somewhat correct for that. Perhaps it’s an overcorrection, but I don’t think it is.
If this is intended as a summary of the post, I’d say it doesn’t quite seem to capture what I was getting at. If I had to give my own one-paragraph summary, it would be this:
Something that was in the background of the post, but I don’t think I adequately brought out, is that this habit of [automatically dismissing anything that seems like it might be the result of motivated reasoning] can lead to decision paralysis and pathological self-doubt. The point of this post is to somewhat correct for that. Perhaps it’s an overcorrection, but I don’t think it is.
I found this one-paragraph summary way clearer than the OP, and suggest adding it at the beginning.
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