you want irrespective of the way the world currently is.
Or, more precisely, irrespective of the way you want the world to be.
I.e., if it affects how they interpret evidence, it’s a bias, if it affects just their decisions it’s a preference.
if it affects how they interpret evidence, it’s a bias, if it affects just their decisions it’s a preference.
The problem is that in practice assigning mental states to one or the other of these categories can get rather arbitrary. Especially when aliefs get involved.
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.