PhilGoetz comments on The bias shield - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 31 December 2011 05:44PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 03 January 2012 11:33:39PM 1 point [-]

Good point. "Bias" is the wrong word. The proposed reasoning is the same - the further away from the opinions of others that I know person X to be, the more I can dismiss the attitude of random person R towards X as being based on that distance.