gjm comments on [Link] Using mindkillers to promote rationality - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 12 September 2015 03:44PM

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Comment author: gjm 19 September 2015 11:30:46PM -2 points [-]

There are varieties of error other than projection. Anyway: If you acknowledge that Gleb's purpose was to publish an article about bias and rationality and psychology that would get Salon's readers to think about those things and learn a little (I can't tell: do you?) then I am not sure what point you're intending to make here and why you think it needs making.

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 September 2015 11:30:30AM 1 point [-]

Gleb wants to publish an article about bias and rationality.
Salon's readers like to read an article trashing Trump and Salon is happy to produce such an article for them.

Comment author: gjm 20 September 2015 12:58:41PM -1 points [-]

Yeah, sure, very possible. So Gleb has got an article into Salon that uses mindkill-y topics as a hook to get readers thinking and learning about bias and rationality. Which, er, is what he said at the outset was the idea.

But it sounds -- maybe I'm misreading your tone? -- as if you consider that there's a problem here. What is it?