I think you make an important distinction, but people sometimes act like gaining understanding will result in a long-term reduction in some warm fuzzies for them. They sometimes explicitly tell me they think this will happen. While I think people may underestimate the net warm fuzzies resulting from learning (i.e. they are biased), I’m confident that they are sometimes correct. The difficult question is deciding what we should do about this.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very committed to epistemic rationality and will try to sell people on its many virtues/benefits.
I think you make an important distinction, but people sometimes act like gaining understanding will result in a long-term reduction in some warm fuzzies for them.
Certainly, people act like this, but I’m wondering whether it is actually true.
I’m confident that they are sometimes correct
First, I wouldn’t want to dismiss that some people could be correct. I’m just trying to think up some examples where they actually are. Do you have some other examples you are thinking of?
I think you make an important distinction, but people sometimes act like gaining understanding will result in a long-term reduction in some warm fuzzies for them. They sometimes explicitly tell me they think this will happen. While I think people may underestimate the net warm fuzzies resulting from learning (i.e. they are biased), I’m confident that they are sometimes correct. The difficult question is deciding what we should do about this.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very committed to epistemic rationality and will try to sell people on its many virtues/benefits.
Certainly, people act like this, but I’m wondering whether it is actually true.
First, I wouldn’t want to dismiss that some people could be correct. I’m just trying to think up some examples where they actually are. Do you have some other examples you are thinking of?