atucker comments on Terminal Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 31 January 2012 02:01:40AM 4 points [-]

I feel like values are defined over outcomes, while biases are defined over cognitive processes.

You could value a bias I suppose, but then you'd be valuing executing particular algorithms over like, saving the world. If that's the case, I think that the people arguing for a bias are looking for an easy way out of a problem, or more attached to their identity than I believe to be useful.

Not that I've reflected that much on it, but that's my intuition coming in.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 31 January 2012 04:33:07AM 1 point [-]

So how would you apply this idea to the examples in the OP?

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 04:42:26AM 0 points [-]

That seems good, check out my favored solution. I'll have to think about yours more to see if it works.

Comment author: thelittledoctor 31 January 2012 04:28:07AM 0 points [-]

This is also my understanding of the distinction.