Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture make assumptions about conventions, including conventions of language, notation, proof and evidence. They are then accused of mistaking these assumptions for laws of logic or nature.
It seems to me that cultural bias isn’t so bad, as long as we don’t make this mistake, and the examples you give do not seem to constitute evidence that this kind of mistake has been made.
Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture make assumptions about conventions, including conventions of language, notation, proof and evidence. They are then accused of mistaking these assumptions for laws of logic or nature.
This is precisely what I observe happening here at times.
I honestly have little idea what wedrifid_2011 was talking about. At least, I can see various things which fit but I’m not really sure which of the points he was trying to make.
Well I’d still be interested in what things wedrifid_2012 think might fit: :
Cultural bias occurs when people of a culture make assumptions about conventions, including conventions of language, notation, proof and evidence. They are then accused of mistaking these assumptions for laws of logic or nature.
On LessWrong. Generally speaking I’m willing to accept wedrifid 2012 March as a good approximation of wedrifid 2011July.
I would perhaps say that while overall wedrifid is very similar to the wedrifid from the aforementioned July, the cache of things that have recently irritated him is somewhat different. I also haven’t read the context here recently so as to most effectively re-prime myself. Let me take another glance.
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It seems to me that cultural bias isn’t so bad, as long as we don’t make this mistake, and the examples you give do not seem to constitute evidence that this kind of mistake has been made.
This is precisely what I observe happening here at times.
I would be interested in a few examples.
I honestly have little idea what wedrifid_2011 was talking about. At least, I can see various things which fit but I’m not really sure which of the points he was trying to make.
Well I’d still be interested in what things wedrifid_2012 think might fit: :
On LessWrong. Generally speaking I’m willing to accept wedrifid 2012 March as a good approximation of wedrifid 2011July.
I would perhaps say that while overall wedrifid is very similar to the wedrifid from the aforementioned July, the cache of things that have recently irritated him is somewhat different. I also haven’t read the context here recently so as to most effectively re-prime myself. Let me take another glance.
Quote from Shaw.