Decius comments on To become more rational, rinse your left ear with cold water - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 30 May 2013 04:39:18AM 5 points [-]

I don't think that adding a bias is "more rational" than not adding one, even if you are adding a bias that is in the opposite direction as a known one, unless you can estimate the total direction and magnitude of all of your biases and offset by that much.