I don’t think the problem was changing views on new evidence, or even doing it selfishly. I think the problem shminux is referring to is that of deftly, instantly reframing the entire situation, backstory and everything, to make the new view more plausible.
It’s related to that bias/failure mode (forget its name) of thinking that positive traits are all correlated—that if advocate’s position A is good, everything about it must be good, or something to that effect.
deftly, instantly reframing the entire situation, backstory and everything, to make the new view more plausible.
Yes.
It’s related to that bias/failure mode (forget its name) of thinking that positive traits are all correlated—that if advocate’s position A is good, everything about it must be good, or something to that effect.
You probably mean the halo effect, though I don’t think that would quite explain what happened.
that if advocate’s position A is good, everything about it must be good
If you’re valuing e.g. the right to choose really, really highly, then nearly any course of action that supports it may indeed be considered to be good in context, even if you’d object to it in isolation. Killing versus killing to depose of an ‘evil’/misunderstood dictator.
I don’t think the problem was changing views on new evidence, or even doing it selfishly. I think the problem shminux is referring to is that of deftly, instantly reframing the entire situation, backstory and everything, to make the new view more plausible.
It’s related to that bias/failure mode (forget its name) of thinking that positive traits are all correlated—that if advocate’s position A is good, everything about it must be good, or something to that effect.
Yes.
You probably mean the halo effect, though I don’t think that would quite explain what happened.
Halo effect.
If you’re valuing e.g. the right to choose really, really highly, then nearly any course of action that supports it may indeed be considered to be good in context, even if you’d object to it in isolation. Killing versus killing to depose of an ‘evil’/misunderstood dictator.