Tangential instrumental value: They challenged, directly, indirectly, or by sideways questioning, beliefs that I already held and had not taken the chance to update since long before my arrival to LessWrong. eridu was thus a very convenient poster for me to cover this and surrounding topics and manually propagate updates throughout my mental model(s).
Short of arguing against someone who has a dragon in their garage, I don’t see what could help me update my beliefs more quickly without massive confirmation bias and heuristic errors.
For a start, it seems you’ll have to abandon that particular political tactic (because it didn’t work). Please do use a different one. Eridu is toxic and so is that kind of politics.
While I believe that being surprised is less significant than being confused, there still may be some reason for you to update.
Hmm, what should this update look like?
Maybe people at LW are typically less like you than you think. (This may be true for people’s opinion of other people in general.)
Maybe there’s more value in what eridu says than you realize.
There would almost have to be (regression to the mean and all).
Right, that’s obviously true of those who participated in the poll.
I’d be interested to learn what this value might be and how it outweighs the obvious negative value.
Tangential instrumental value: They challenged, directly, indirectly, or by sideways questioning, beliefs that I already held and had not taken the chance to update since long before my arrival to LessWrong. eridu was thus a very convenient poster for me to cover this and surrounding topics and manually propagate updates throughout my mental model(s).
Short of arguing against someone who has a dragon in their garage, I don’t see what could help me update my beliefs more quickly without massive confirmation bias and heuristic errors.
Can you give a few examples of these updates?
For a start, it seems you’ll have to abandon that particular political tactic (because it didn’t work). Please do use a different one. Eridu is toxic and so is that kind of politics.