Huh? Who defines racism as cognitive bias? I’ve never seen that before, so expecting Scott in particular to define it as such seems like special pleading.
What would your definition be, and why would it be better?
Scott endorses this definition:
Definition By Motives: An irrational feeling of hatred toward some race that causes someone to want to hurt or discriminate against them.
Setting aside that it says “irrational feeling” instead of “cognitive bias”, how does this “tr[y] to define racism out of existence”?
Huh? Who defines racism as cognitive bias? I’ve never seen that before, so expecting Scott in particular to define it as such seems like special pleading.
What would your definition be, and why would it be better?
Scott endorses this definition:
Setting aside that it says “irrational feeling” instead of “cognitive bias”, how does this “tr[y] to define racism out of existence”?
fyi I think “racism as cognitive bias” was a fairly natural and common way of framing it before I showed up on LessWrong 10 years ago.