Jadagul comments on The Futility of Emergence - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 August 2007 10:10PM

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Comment author: Gordon_Worley 07 September 2007 01:08:00PM 2 points [-]

Eliezer, although the comments did eventually get better, don't despair for the early comments on this post. Remember yourself, all you are finding in the comments is evidence confirming the belief that no one reading this blog is learning anything. I conjecture that those who have learned something just don't get excited enough to post because they don't disagree with you strongly enough or aren't sufficiently surprised to thank you publicly.

Of course, I still suspect, as you probably do, from years of experience that most readers of this blog believe they are learning to overcome bias when in fact they are just convincing themselves that they are learning to overcome bias because they have read about it and believe it's a virtue to overcome bias. And I don't exclude myself from this group either, because although I don't feel as though I'm thinking this way, that doesn't mean I might not secretly be and I will be revealed when I discover a serious error in my behavior and beliefs.