John_Maxwell_IV comments on Open Thread, November 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 23 November 2012 08:10:01AM 2 points [-]

It feels to me like we can weather it. I'd be more worried about your referrals learning all about biases and only using their knowledge to spot biases in others, as EY describes here, but even this risk doesn't seem that large to me--I've only seen like 1-2 LWers do something resembling this, ever.