wedrifid comments on A Taxonomy of Bias: The Cognitive Miser - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 02 July 2010 06:38PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2010 04:24:05AM 1 point [-]

Huh. I wondered why this post isn't getting any more upvotes. Is that because it's hard to understand? Am I trying to say too much in too few words?

Comment author: wedrifid 03 July 2010 04:46:21AM *  3 points [-]

Am I trying to say too much in too few words?

More words would be a bad thing. Perhaps too much content and too many arbitrary new names for things for one post.

For my part I just hadn't had time to read the post until now so the vote just required patience. Another consideration is that people haven't had their attention constantly dragged back to the post, prompting them to read it and vote. There just isn't all that much that is controversial in the content to prompt extensive debate or analysis. I just read "a bunch of biases that I already know and categorizations that I'm neither for nor against."