Dias comments on Open thread, December 7-13, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dias 08 December 2015 12:22:18AM *  1 point [-]

Unfortunately in writing the article Vox themselves seem to have fallen prey to some of the same stupidity; if you're familiar with Vox's general left-wing sympathies you'll be unsurprised that the examples of stupidity used in the article are overwhelmingly from right-wing sources. If you really want to improve people's thinking, you need to focus on your own tribe at least as much as the enemy tribe.

I previously wrote about this here.

Comment author: passive_fist 08 December 2015 12:37:15AM *  3 points [-]

The example they give is actually anti gun control (it is a contrived example of course) and they repeatedly mention that the biases in question affect individuals who identify as left-wing as well as individuals who identify as right-wing.

If you really want to improve people's thinking, you need to focus on your own tribe at least as much as the enemy tribe.

Why? I looked at your linked article and the two articles it links to and I can't find any proof that doing what you say would result in fewer disagreements than not doing that.