Today at work my co-workers gave me what I consider to be one of the greatest compliments I’ve ever received in my life and possibly evidence of my success as an aspiring rationalist. It was something like, “You’re like a robot or a computer, it is impossible to get you to change your opinion unless someone gives you data.”
My 1st thought was, Wow! Isn’t that how it is supposed to be? Shouldn’t everyone be that way?
She went on to talk about her own skepticism of data, which is itself data that should be taken into account, I should have gone on to say. It is a huge problem here in China where all of the data is heavily biased, filtered, and controlled by the government.
Today at work my co-workers gave me what I consider to be one of the greatest compliments I’ve ever received in my life and possibly evidence of my success as an aspiring rationalist. It was something like, “You’re like a robot or a computer, it is impossible to get you to change your opinion unless someone gives you data.”
My 1st thought was, Wow! Isn’t that how it is supposed to be? Shouldn’t everyone be that way?
She went on to talk about her own skepticism of data, which is itself data that should be taken into account, I should have gone on to say. It is a huge problem here in China where all of the data is heavily biased, filtered, and controlled by the government.