ialdabaoth comments on Less Wrong’s political bias - Less Wrong
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In this particular example, though, I don't think (non-mindkilled) people try to train people not to notice it, and in most rational cases that I've seen, it isn't "rationalized away" so much as people spend a good deal of effort insisting that correlation does not always imply causation, and that social policies which take that correlation into account need to be VERY careful not to repeat tabooed historical solutions. I think if "I agree denotationally but object connotationally" were a more widespread concept, we would see a lot of this tendency disappear.