I hope I will get around to rereading the post and edit this comment to write a proper review, but I’m pretty busy, so in case I don’t I now leave this very shitty review here.
I think this is probably my favorite post from 2023. Read the post summary to see what it’s about.
I don’t remember a lot of the details from the post and so am not sure whether I agree with everything, but what I can say is:
When I read it several months ago, it seemed to me like an amazingly good explanation for why and how humans fall for motivated reasoning.
The concept of valence turned out very useful for explaining some of my thought processes, e.g. when I’m daydreaming something and asking myself why, then for the few cases where I checked it was always something that falls into “the thought has high valence”—like e.g. imagining some situation where I said something that makes me look smart.
I hope I will get around to rereading the post and edit this comment to write a proper review, but I’m pretty busy, so in case I don’t I now leave this very shitty review here.
I think this is probably my favorite post from 2023. Read the post summary to see what it’s about.
I don’t remember a lot of the details from the post and so am not sure whether I agree with everything, but what I can say is:
When I read it several months ago, it seemed to me like an amazingly good explanation for why and how humans fall for motivated reasoning.
The concept of valence turned out very useful for explaining some of my thought processes, e.g. when I’m daydreaming something and asking myself why, then for the few cases where I checked it was always something that falls into “the thought has high valence”—like e.g. imagining some situation where I said something that makes me look smart.