h-H comments on Think Before You Speak (And Signal It) - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 March 2010 10:21PM

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Comment author: taw 20 March 2010 01:39:28AM 5 points [-]

Time spent thinking about something correlates far too much with how much a person likes an idea. People who believe strongly in the Holy Trinity have spent far more time on average thinking about it than people who don't.

So, you will end up very strongly biased if you follow own advice (but then I haven't thought about it much at all).

Comment author: h-H 20 March 2010 07:21:56PM *  1 point [-]

actually I think the majority probably spend too little time thinking about the Holy Trinity to be actually capable of believing in it, rather spending more on reasons why it makes sense etc.

I mean isn't the type of thinking Wei Die urging is a bit different than thinking about the trinity?

Comment author: taw 21 March 2010 05:50:21AM 0 points [-]

The post seemed to have been asking to simply report time spent thinking about something, as it's easy to measure. Or did I not think enough about it?