TheAncientGeek comments on Reductionist research strategies and their biases - Less Wrong
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Everyone should care because the biases that are "close to home" are ones that matter. This is an important subject.
Normative versus descriptive. Saying "everyone should care" doesn't change the fact that some don't, and that for those people, a tidier presentation may help, even if it wouldn't make a difference for an ideal rationalist.
Regarding the subject as important is not at all exclusive of wanting a better presentation.