hyporational comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (8th thread, July 2015) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 14 September 2015 04:44:57PM *  2 points [-]

Whatever the terminology, they should make the connection between the process of decision making and the science of decision making, which they don't seem to do. Medicine is like this isolated bubble where every insight must come from the medical community itself.

I found overcoming bias and became a rationalist during med school. Finding the blog was purely accidental, although I recognized the need for understanding my thinking, so I'm not sure what form this need would have taken given a slightly different circumstance.