steven0461 comments on Ideas for heuristics and biases research topic? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 25 September 2011 10:36:31PM 9 points [-]

cognitive reflectiveness: the disposition to choose to think carefully about something and avoid bias

I sometimes worry that this disposition may be more important than everything we typically think of as "rationality skills" and more important than all the specific named biases that can be isolated and published, but that it's underemphasized on LW because "I'll teach you these cool thinking skills and you'll be a strictly more awesome person" makes for a better website sales pitch than "please be cognitively reflective to the point of near-neuroticism, I guess one thing that helps is to have the relevant genes".

Comment author: [deleted] 26 September 2011 04:14:31AM 0 points [-]

Yeah. What do you do if you're just good enough at juggling to know you'll always kind of suck at it?