taygetea comments on If you could push a button to eliminate one cognitive bias, which would you choose? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taygetea 10 April 2015 06:31:02AM 2 points [-]

Typical Mind Fallacy. Allows people to actually cooperate for once. One of the things I've been thinking about is how one person's fundamental mind structure is interpreted by another as an obvious status grab. I want humans to better approximate Aumann's Agreement Theorem. Solve the coordination problem, solve everything.

Comment author: malcolmocean 12 April 2015 02:10:21AM 0 points [-]

I really like this.

There would be, I think, a strong and weak version of not having typical mind fallacy. The weak one is where you simply stop short of unreasonable assumptions of how much others will be like you (less certainty but fewer mistakes). The strong version would be having actually really accurate and precise models of other minds. It seems plausible that someone who had the weak one might grow towards the strong one if they were very curious and attentive.