Comment author: MixedNuts 07 June 2011 12:26:32PM 13 points [-]

Okay, so the essence of wisdom is to be exactly as suspicious of everything as you should be, the first-pass approximation of wisdom is to remain suspicious of what you want to be true, and the second-pass approximation of wisdom is to be also suspicious of current beliefs you want to be untrue.

Comment author: servumtuum 08 June 2011 05:09:40AM 4 points [-]

MixedNuts, I take the quote as a mental "post-it note" reminder to be cognizant of the potential presence of confirmation bias-in both directions as you stated.

Comment author: servumtuum 06 June 2011 09:37:47PM 17 points [-]

The essence of wisdom is to remain suspicious of what you want to be true.

-Jon K. Hart