I think some differences of models are due to motivated cognition, but I think many or most models comes more down to different problems that you’re solving.
For example, I had many arguments with habryka about whether there should be norms around keeping the office clean that involved continuous effort on the part of individuals. His opinion was that you should just solve the problem with specialization and systemization. I think motivated cognition have played a role in each of our models, but there were legitimate reasons to prefer one over the other, and those reasons were entangled with each other in messy ways that requires several days of conversation to untangle. (See “Hufflepuff Leadership and Fighting Entropy” for some details about the models, and hopefully an upcoming blogpost about resolving disagreements when you don’t share ontologies)
I think some differences of models are due to motivated cognition, but I think many or most models comes more down to different problems that you’re solving.
For example, I had many arguments with habryka about whether there should be norms around keeping the office clean that involved continuous effort on the part of individuals. His opinion was that you should just solve the problem with specialization and systemization. I think motivated cognition have played a role in each of our models, but there were legitimate reasons to prefer one over the other, and those reasons were entangled with each other in messy ways that requires several days of conversation to untangle. (See “Hufflepuff Leadership and Fighting Entropy” for some details about the models, and hopefully an upcoming blogpost about resolving disagreements when you don’t share ontologies)