We don’t “trust” ourselves not to rationalize, we acknowledge the problem and fight it.
If you’re trying to make the point that truth-seeking isn’t always beneficial, we know that too. I’m too lazy to give you a large list of links, but the first ever post by Robin and the second ever post by Eliezer discuss the issue. I’d estimate the number of posts dealing with this exact topic to be somewhere between 10 and 100 (including my own first post on LW when I was much stupider than now), so you may find it interesting to browse the archives for a while.
simply saying that you’ve talked about a weakness doesn’t erradicate it. The weakness may be within you, but what affects you mroe is the extent of the problem with the REST of the society. If anything my point is that you should be spending all your effort working on the other 99% of the population, because they’re going to affect your life a whole lot more by limiting your ability to live your life they way you think it oughta be lived. you know—bigger bang for the buck. Our (ANY country) education, medicine, politics, business, marriage are so full of BACKWARDS incentives that we will never come close at ALL to USING the intricacies of the problems this blog discusses. Maybe you think you can live a life disconnected from this, but if you have a job or are in a relationship or have kids, then you’re not overcoming any bias. You may know that, but you’re not living it. Paying tribute to that with my Anonymous quote.
simply saying that you’ve talked about a weakness doesn’t erradicate it.
Presence of discussion about the problem doesn’t make the problem go away. But it is what makes your assertion about the presence of the problem useless: it’s known, it’s acknowledged, it’s discussed, nothing to be gained by rehashing the issue without making progress.
once again, there are two problems. 1 - we all have it. 2 - they all have it way worse. you guys focus on 1 and i’m sayign that in a world of blind one eye man is dead meat. Sure seems like you guys are quite emotional about the whole thing with negative ratings (didn’t realize it was also a contest for worst quote), so you don’t seem to be makign that much progress on 1.
We don’t “trust” ourselves not to rationalize, we acknowledge the problem and fight it.
If you’re trying to make the point that truth-seeking isn’t always beneficial, we know that too. I’m too lazy to give you a large list of links, but the first ever post by Robin and the second ever post by Eliezer discuss the issue. I’d estimate the number of posts dealing with this exact topic to be somewhere between 10 and 100 (including my own first post on LW when I was much stupider than now), so you may find it interesting to browse the archives for a while.
simply saying that you’ve talked about a weakness doesn’t erradicate it. The weakness may be within you, but what affects you mroe is the extent of the problem with the REST of the society. If anything my point is that you should be spending all your effort working on the other 99% of the population, because they’re going to affect your life a whole lot more by limiting your ability to live your life they way you think it oughta be lived. you know—bigger bang for the buck. Our (ANY country) education, medicine, politics, business, marriage are so full of BACKWARDS incentives that we will never come close at ALL to USING the intricacies of the problems this blog discusses. Maybe you think you can live a life disconnected from this, but if you have a job or are in a relationship or have kids, then you’re not overcoming any bias. You may know that, but you’re not living it. Paying tribute to that with my Anonymous quote.
Presence of discussion about the problem doesn’t make the problem go away. But it is what makes your assertion about the presence of the problem useless: it’s known, it’s acknowledged, it’s discussed, nothing to be gained by rehashing the issue without making progress.
once again, there are two problems. 1 - we all have it. 2 - they all have it way worse. you guys focus on 1 and i’m sayign that in a world of blind one eye man is dead meat. Sure seems like you guys are quite emotional about the whole thing with negative ratings (didn’t realize it was also a contest for worst quote), so you don’t seem to be makign that much progress on 1.