thomblake comments on Harnessing Your Biases - Less Wrong

10 Post author: swestrup 02 July 2009 08:45PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 July 2009 10:04:28PM *  4 points [-]

You're not harnessing your biases, you're harnessing your pride. So do I, in various ways.

In all frankness... I would have voted up your post except for the title. I'm fatigued of such clevernesses.

Comment author: thomblake 02 July 2009 11:58:13PM 1 point [-]

Yes... 'bias' is normative; at least, that's how we treat it here. Suggesting that a bias could be positive is inconsistent - better might be to say "maybe this isn't a bias after all".