As always, there’s the difference between “we’re all doomed to be biased, so I might as well carry on with whatever I was already doing” and “we’re all doomed to be somewhat biased, but less biased is better than more biased, so let’s try and mitigate them as we go”.
Someone really ought to name a website along those lines.
If you haven’t yet encountered the classic LW answer to “what is bias”, this sequence of posts is basically it—this post is a quick gesture in the right direction if you don’t want to read the others.
If you have read/osmosed the relevant posts, and you don’t think the LW account of bias is adequate for purposes like the one in my comment upthread, can you say more about why?
As always, there’s the difference between “we’re all doomed to be biased, so I might as well carry on with whatever I was already doing” and “we’re all doomed to be somewhat biased, but less biased is better than more biased, so let’s try and mitigate them as we go”.
Someone really ought to name a website along those lines.
Disambiguating:
If you haven’t yet encountered the classic LW answer to “what is bias”, this sequence of posts is basically it—this post is a quick gesture in the right direction if you don’t want to read the others.
If you have read/osmosed the relevant posts, and you don’t think the LW account of bias is adequate for purposes like the one in my comment upthread, can you say more about why?