David_Gerard comments on Credence calibration game FAQ - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Academian 26 November 2012 12:52AM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 26 November 2012 11:26:50AM 4 points [-]

We know we're winning when they begin making rationality friends music videos.

Comment author: David_Gerard 27 November 2012 09:05:47PM 4 points [-]

The 5yo has been watching Pokemon anime by the ton. I'm picturing something with similar production values featuring the CFAR trials. A wise old fellow who seems to know just everything. People catch GREAT BIG Cognitive Biases out in the wild, then put these Cognitive Biases into training to evolve them smaller and smaller. RationalWiki guest-star as Team Rocket. It'll be huge.

Comment author: Alicorn 28 November 2012 07:28:04PM 1 point [-]

This would be cute, except you'd have to catch the biases in a dreamscape/mindscape of some kind, not in the "wild". (Why would you want to retrieve them, even for shrinking, unless they were already inside your head?)

Comment author: gwern 28 November 2012 09:10:30PM 7 points [-]

'Arguments are soldiers' and 'reason is for persuasion'; hence, you obviously use biasemons on your opponents to make them make bad decisions and believe wrong things.

(It's not any more malicious than enslaving wild animals and making them fight until they are knocked unconscious by the trauma...)

Comment author: David_Gerard 28 November 2012 11:36:26PM 1 point [-]

Because biases are so much easier to identify in other people, of course.