jimrandomh comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 13 July 2010 10:53:29PM 9 points [-]

I think it would've been better received if some attention was given to defense mechanisms - ie, rather than phrasing it as some true things being unconditionally bad to know, phrase it as some true things being bad to know unless you have the appropriate prerequisites in place. For example, knowing about differences between races is bad unless you are very good at avoiding confirmation bias, and knowing how to detect errors in reasoning is bad unless you are very good at avoiding motivated cognition.