Sample script? Ok. I tried to imagine myself writing your post and reacting to paper-machine's comment and that's what I've come up with:
Justify what after the fact? Exercise in confirmation bias while confirming what?
Literature review is pretty much what I'm planning to do. Maybe it won't be very systematic but then I'm not trying to write a review paper but to pick some interesting looking things and test them. If you stumble upon something real then it will stay real regardless of how much other material on the topic you read.
Arriving at silly conclusions because of biases is always a possibility and you can't have enough warnings, that's true, but those warnings don't have to take the form of "you're dooomed. Give Up!"
And I tried introspecting (ha!) and noting the thoughts that flitted through my head when I was trying to differentiate that reply from your not-very-well-received one (not all of them got applied to the hypothetical reply above):
Don't mention your voting (to me, it always comes off as overdramatic).
If you explicitly talk about your annoyance, don't emphasize the restraint you've shown in expressing it (and maybe try be a little apologetic about it -- not towards the specific person you're addressing but in a general "I'm annoyed because I'm an imperfect human being, woe is me" manner).
The fact that you got annoyed probably means that the comment contains some presupposition that casts you in a bad light. Figure out what that is and deny it.
Somehow acknowledge the possibility that the annoying comment was written in good faith -- that paper-machine really wanted to warn you against biases and overdid it. That way even if the other party was really trying to score cheap rationalist-points by taking a potshot at you, they can insist on that more friendly interpretation, thus retracting their attack while still saving face. And so peace is restored thorough the Realms.
Also, this is all based on intuition and explicit cynical cognition, no experience of actually expressing my annoyance at people on LessWrong (so I have no idea if I wouldn't be downvoted to hell too) and not that much experience in getting graciously annoyed at people in real-life. Approach with extreme distrust.
Very well put.
I have decided that it would be valuable for me to read books (blog posts, articles, random conversations between smart people who store chatlogs) about introspection, take notes, and try to distill and clarify the information. This could result in me eventually giving up, or in a Luminosity Sequence: Second Edition (Now With Literature, Part Of This Complete Breakfast!), or (optimism!) me being able to sort ~90% of people into some number of categories such that their category membership tells me how to help them develop luminosity superpowers in N simple steps with exercises/therapy-ish stuff/etc.
Help me eat luminosity! I need recommendations for stuff to read. This stuff should be:
I read really fast. Don't worry about oversaturating me with recommendations, but please do say a little about why you recommend a thing (even if it's "I haven't read this, but I keep hearing about it, so I guess some people like it") and post recommendations in separate comments so people with information about the item can vote up and down separately. Recommendations for non-written things will be heavily discounted but not outright disqualified.
I would also like a supply of guinea-pigs-in-waiting for if and when I get to the point of trying the sorting or the superpower-giving part of the optimistic end state of the project.
If people want me to, I can document the process of luminosity-eating so there is a template to follow for other subject-eating projects, but I wouldn't do this by default because in general I only do things that someone would care if I didn't do them.