Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Group Rationality Diary, August 1-15 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 04 August 2013 09:06:31PM *  2 points [-]

Another effect related to 2 is that many people probably think they can't find vegetarian dishes that taste as good as their preferred meat dishes. (I mean, I also think this. I don't currently know of any good substitutes for my preferred meat dishes.)

One more thing I'd like to add is that only after turning vegetarian I was first able to understand how severely I had been biased toward neglecting suffering in other species.

As long as we're talking in terms of biases, this could itself be regarded as a bias, namely a consistency effect.