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NancyLebovitz comments on Terminology Thread (or "name that pattern") - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 July 2014 04:44:48PM 1 point [-]

It may be a typical mind fallacy if the person actually has the emotional habits they're demanding from other people. Now that I think about it, people sometimes demand that their own emotions should just be different.

However, a statement can include more than one fallacy, and I think fantasies of lack of process can also be in play.

The whole FAI project resulted from Eiiezer realizing that a process was needed for AIs to be benevolent rather than a disaster.

As may be obvious, I now think the bias could be named the lack of process bias, though the "it should just happen!" bias might be more intuitive.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 03 July 2014 05:14:08PM 1 point [-]

I was going to ask, "Do we ever demand emotional habits we don't have ourselves?", but then I noticed it was yet another typical mind fallacy on my part.