I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m merely pointing out that humans fall too much in love with their pet idea de jour.
I agree. BTW, I can’t downvote anyone.
I’m not trying to explain something with conditioning and just conditioning alone though; all I am saying is that we should expect self deception to get reinforced as it results in internal reward (and avoidance of self deception easily results in punishment). Regarding the voting, I also was down to −7 on this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ai9/how_do_you_notice_when_youre_rationalizing/5y3w so I do not care a whole lot.
Well, I wanted to leave for it being generally a waste of time; still, not everyone here is stupid (non stupid list includes Yvain, Wei_Dai, Will Newsome even though he’s nuts, a few others). The relevant question is why I don’t just delete this account.
I agree. BTW, I can’t downvote anyone.
I’m not trying to explain something with conditioning and just conditioning alone though; all I am saying is that we should expect self deception to get reinforced as it results in internal reward (and avoidance of self deception easily results in punishment). Regarding the voting, I also was down to −7 on this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ai9/how_do_you_notice_when_youre_rationalizing/5y3w so I do not care a whole lot.
Why did you change usernames?
Well, I wanted to leave for it being generally a waste of time; still, not everyone here is stupid (non stupid list includes Yvain, Wei_Dai, Will Newsome even though he’s nuts, a few others). The relevant question is why I don’t just delete this account.
But why did you stop posting under the other name?