jschulter comments on Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win - Less Wrong

21 Post author: jschulter 15 July 2011 08:39AM

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Comment author: jschulter 18 July 2011 04:05:13PM 1 point [-]

Do you read/watch a lot of fiction? I personally end up selecting for fiction which matches my beliefs somewhat closely, and that in retrospect has likely strongly enforced the connection. This seems like a reasonable candidate for an automatic yet unnoticeable process with those results.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 18 July 2011 04:58:44PM 0 points [-]

With certain kind of beliefs, yes, but generally using fictional evidence even for somehting like this has disadvantages, as does limiting yourself to fictions that reaffirms our beliefs in general.