Please note that negative points to this post, or failure to respond will only provide further evidence that LW is guilty of confirmation bias. Its sweet when you get to use cognitive biases against those that try to weed them out.
I see these wonky pseudo-threats around the site a lot and they’re really confusing to me. Of course I’m biased! I’m a human! Just because I’m hanging around this site doesn’t mean I’ve cleared all my biases and now become a perfect rational agent.
On one hand, I do want to weed out cognitive biases in situations where they’re hindering my decision-making in important areas of my life. On the other hand, I still have a lot of information to sift through in the real world, so maybe some of the shortcuts my brain uses are pretty handy to keep around. One example of these would be “talk to people that don’t threaten you; discourage people that do.” Sure, this might be filtering out some potentially good discussions, but it still seems like a pretty good heuristic to me, especially out there in scary meatspace. ^_^
I see these wonky pseudo-threats around the site a lot and they’re really confusing to me.
FWIW, I mostly understand them to be attempts at manipulating listeners into avoiding a particular behavior by associating that behavior with a low-status condition, coupled with the belief that on LW being biased is seen as a low-status condition.
But hopefully most LWers don’t go around thinking being biased in any way is awful and they must be completely unbiased at all times. Right? So I’m not sure where the manipulative people pick up that idea. I definitely think we should minimize bias when making important decisions, but when deciding what posts to read/reply to? I will proudly use a shortcut!
I see these wonky pseudo-threats around the site a lot and they’re really confusing to me. Of course I’m biased! I’m a human! Just because I’m hanging around this site doesn’t mean I’ve cleared all my biases and now become a perfect rational agent.
On one hand, I do want to weed out cognitive biases in situations where they’re hindering my decision-making in important areas of my life. On the other hand, I still have a lot of information to sift through in the real world, so maybe some of the shortcuts my brain uses are pretty handy to keep around. One example of these would be “talk to people that don’t threaten you; discourage people that do.” Sure, this might be filtering out some potentially good discussions, but it still seems like a pretty good heuristic to me, especially out there in scary meatspace. ^_^
FWIW, I mostly understand them to be attempts at manipulating listeners into avoiding a particular behavior by associating that behavior with a low-status condition, coupled with the belief that on LW being biased is seen as a low-status condition.
But hopefully most LWers don’t go around thinking being biased in any way is awful and they must be completely unbiased at all times. Right? So I’m not sure where the manipulative people pick up that idea. I definitely think we should minimize bias when making important decisions, but when deciding what posts to read/reply to? I will proudly use a shortcut!