suzanne comments on Request: Interesting Invertible Facts - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2010 08:02PM

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Comment author: suzanne 10 October 2010 06:54:58PM *  2 points [-]

I know what you mean, and I worried about that when I posted those examples. The problem is that I can't tell if I'm suffering from the hindsight bias when I'm trying to evaluate "Could I believe both this statement and its inverse, regardless of which one was presented as the truth?" In these cases, I can come up with fake rationalisations for both (even though one is more counter-intuitive), which makes me think that they might be invertible. They would need to be tested on people in experiments like the ones in the article by Meyers.