Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rational Me or We?
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Roko, great comment, but you should've just Edited. Why delete and repost?
Thanks. I wrote the original comment, then realized that I hadn't read the post as thoroughly as I should have done and worried that I'd straw-manned Robin, so I deleted the comment not realizing that Robin had replied to it. When I'd read the post again and read my comment, I made a slight change and decided that the critique was on point and I was really critiquing Robin's position, not a straw man. Preview would help slightly, because you could read your comment next to the OP and do a "did I straw man him?" sanity check.
FYI, I had replied to the previous version of the comment.
Robin said:
Or even combining two or three topics with 5 or 6 ways to debias... if you're going to go to the effort of combining several academic subjects in one mind, it is almost certainly worth the effort of adding in the subject of "heuristics and biases/rationality arts"; at the cost of learning 1 more subject, you'll improve your performance across the board, and in particular you'll improve your ability to combine subjects as you'll be in a good position to dispassionately weigh the merits of various approaches and synergies.