Great post (really could have used some editing, though).
Where do we go from here, though? What approaches look promising?
As one example, I would say that the extraordinarity bias is in fact a preference. Or consider the happiness paradox: People who become paralyzed become extremely depressed only temporarily; people who win the lottery become very happy only temporarily. (Google ‘happiness “set-point”’.) I’ve previously argued on LessWrong that this is not a bias, but a heuristic to achieve our preferences.
To add to the list, I’ve suggested before that scope insensitivity is just part of our preferences. I choose the dust specks over torture.
Great post (really could have used some editing, though).
Where do we go from here, though? What approaches look promising?
To add to the list, I’ve suggested before that scope insensitivity is just part of our preferences. I choose the dust specks over torture.