I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m merely pointing out that humans fall too much in love with their pet idea de jour.
Actually not entirely sure why I’m being downvoted, perhaps my comment came off as snarky.
edit: after rereading it, it looks like I was attacking you, when really I was just expressing frustration at an entirely different group of people who write books attempting to convince other people that they have the One True Secret of Life.
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’m not disagreeing with you. I’m merely pointing out that humans fall too much in love with their pet idea de jour.
Actually not entirely sure why I’m being downvoted, perhaps my comment came off as snarky.
edit: after rereading it, it looks like I was attacking you, when really I was just expressing frustration at an entirely different group of people who write books attempting to convince other people that they have the One True Secret of Life.
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?