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You mean it's not taken for granted that me, you, and everyone have this excessive belief that their conclusions are correct, have difficulty accurately thinking about long term things and the big picture, and in general have tunnel vision? Those premises seem to be solidly supported by neuroscience as well as well covered in LessWrong articles .
FWIW I wrote that from the point of view of seeing my own behaviour and being frustrated with it, not aiming to insult anyone else. I was hoping to invoke the sense of 'yes, I see myself do this, and it's frustrating and ridiculous and I want to change it' rather than insulting anyone. I'm not sure how to change it without losing that sense.
And uh.. I don't see the order thing at all (at least in the section you quoted). Unless you think that the claim that we need to see things more realistically is anything but stating the obvious.
My apologies on that last bit-- I just saw "stop thinking you're so fucking right, stop being so short-sightedly involved in your immediate problems, and start looking at things in a more neutral, realistic way" and reacted without checking, instead of seeing that you'd actually written "when you really get involved, you stop thinking you're so fucking right, stop being so short-sightedly involved in your immediate problems, and start looking at things in a more neutral, realistic way".
At the moment, I have 8 upvotes (83% positive) on the grandparent, and 4 upvotes (83% positive) on my retraction. This is weird. My retraction isn't based on anything complicated, it was a simple misreading.
It's not that I think I have too many upvotes on the retraction, though 4 might be a little high-- I think of 2 as more typical. I'm just wondering why I didn't lose more of the upvotes on the grandparent.
I'm hoping it's just a matter of fewer people reading a thread as it gets older.