JonahSinick comments on Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JonahSinick 08 June 2013 05:50:46AM *  5 points [-]

I agree that people say such things all the time. What I haven't seen very much is

  • People questioning whether they themselves are subject to this influence (as opposed to questioning whether other people are subject to this influence).
  • Meta-level discussion about how to counteract this influence.

On the latter point, I find certain principles from your How To Actually Change Your Mind sequence to be highly relevant and significant, but I don't remember having seen explicit application of these principles to "assessing the relative social impact of different effective altruism interventions" in the public domain.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 08 June 2013 02:16:44PM 3 points [-]

I wrote a post which is related, except that I thought different people might be more or less influenced by different biases and didn't identify one in particular as the most relevant.

Comment author: JonahSinick 08 June 2013 03:28:07PM 0 points [-]

Yes, I vaguely remember having seen this — good point.