Viliam_Bur comments on Connection Theory Has Less Than No Evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 02 August 2014 12:40:42PM 0 points [-]

Why are people paying attention to it?

Are they? I almost forgot it exists.

I don't remember much about it, by my impression was that it more or less says this:

1) People do things they believe do contribute to their goals. Of course their models can be wrong.

2) Leave a line of retreat. If someone does/believes X because according to their model it is the only/best way to a goal G they care about, before you start convicing them to abandon X, first show them there are alternative ways to reach G. Then they will not fight for X so hard.

It doesn't seem to me so crazy. Just overhyped, without the corresponding extraordinary evidence. And overestimating the strategic behavior of humans.