Peacewise comments on We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peacewise 14 January 2012 03:56:02AM *  0 points [-]

that are a thousand years ahead of western science.

What was the motivation behind this addition? Was it positive?

The motivation was to plant a seed... motivated by the +2 on my comment.

In my experience debiasing others who have strongly held opinions is far more effort than it's worth, a better road seems to be to facilitate them debiasing themselves. Plant the seed and move on, coming back to assess and perhaps water it later on. I don't try to cut down their tree... as it were. http://lesswrong.com/lw/7ep/practical_debiasing/5ah1?context=1#5ah1

Comment author: Vaniver 14 January 2012 05:55:57AM 0 points [-]

But why that seed in this conversation?

It is not uncommon to see scientists who have studied Eastern philosophy. Thus, how could Eastern philsophy be a thousand years ahead of science, when it is part of science?

Comment author: Peacewise 14 January 2012 07:50:43PM 0 points [-]

But why that seed in this conversation?

To assist in debiasing the ageism that was being expressed in the conversation.

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