paper-machine comments on Delicious Luminosity, Om Nom Nom - Less Wrong
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1) Total votes don't work that way. (That is an example of me being derisive, but not toward you. Also, contrary to my own policy, I did not downvote your previous comment, if only because I don't want to inflame you further.)
2) As far as I can tell, intending to avoid falling into a bias or committing a fallacy doesn't always cause the bias to go away. This is one of the main points of Kahneman's research -- some biases are so pernicious that even people who know about them fall flat into them. That's why I recommended doing a systematic literature review. If you know that you've sampled a sufficiently large fragment of the underlying literature, then you'll know that if dissenting literature exists, you made every attempt to find it.
If you don't want to respond to me because of tonal issues, I won't take it personally. In the future I will attempt to be as toneless as possible when responding to you.
This is genuinely new information. Compare this with
which does not seem to imply anything about largely modifying or revising the basic theory of luminosity.
Don't I know it! However, I don't actually have much of an underlying theory to confirm. The luminosity sequence was about me and stuff that works for me, mostly, and I admitted that from the get-go:
This is why your assertion confused me. I'm not sure what I'd be confirming by reading books and articles and stuff. I know some things work for me, but I'm very hesitant to generalize too much (this is why I'm especially interested in the heterogeneity of minds).
At any rate, I apologize for my part in this miscommunication and I hope I've managed to clarify.
The part about therapy concerned me. I overestimated your optimism. Very well; I pray for your success.