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Dagon comments on Political Debiasing and the Political Bias Test - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 13 September 2015 04:23:54PM 2 points [-]

I think at some point you hit a problem with hypocrisy rather than bias. The arguments people make and the beliefs they claim very often don't align with their actual contingent predictions and preferences.

The basic popular belief "I am not responsible for improving this aspect of the universe" is perhaps best handled not so much as an unconscious bias, but as an unstated motivating belief that drives biases.