James_Miller comments on [Link] Op-Ed on Brussels Attacks - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 02 April 2016 05:38PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 03 April 2016 04:53:05AM *  6 points [-]

This shouldn't be down-voted if for no other reason then it shows that a regular contributor to LW got an article in a major paper that contains the following paragraph:

"Recent research shows that after any emotionally powerful event, our brains tend to assign too much weight to that event compared with what is really important to us, a thinking error called attentional bias. To fight this thinking error, we should consider what are our actual goals and how best to reach them."

Comment author: ChristianKl 05 April 2016 12:22:33AM 1 point [-]

Isn't that the point of the Monthly Bragging Thread? Why do you consider the article to be valuable to be in discussion?

Comment author: Chriswaterguy 05 April 2016 04:41:43AM -1 points [-]

Agreed - the article is remarkably rational for a mainstream media op-ed.