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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 July 2015 03:01:48PM 2 points [-]

An ideology would just bias my science and make me worse.

I don't know you well enough to say, but it's quite easy to pretend that one has no ideology. For clear thinking it's very useful to understand one's own ideological positions.

There also a difference between doing science and scientism with is about banner wearing.

Comment author: Acty 21 July 2015 03:58:35PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, I definitely have some kind of inbuilt ideology - it's just that right now, I'm consciously trying to suppress/ignore it. It doesn't seem to converge with what most other humans want. I'd rather treat it as a bias, and try and compensate for it, in order to serve my higher level goals of satisfying people's preferences and increasing happiness and decreasing suffering and doing correct true science.

Comment author: ChristianKl 21 July 2015 05:54:07PM 0 points [-]

Ignoring something and working around a bias are two different things.