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GJM: "Bias" here and on OB generally refers to systematic errors in our truth-seeking and decision-making processes. For instance, confirmation bias: we notice evidence in favour of our beliefs much more easily than evidence against. AMA: Thanks, GJM, for talking to me an for the info on what bias means at the OB. But don't you want to know why there there is confirmation bias or any other bias?
GJM: Lots of important things happen in the brain without words. AMA: True, but we can't describe them without words.
GJM: (And, just in case that last sentence is meant to be anything more than a joke: there are obviously far more things than words, though it's not so clear whether... (read 1300 more words →)
Vladimir Nesov: Your presentation is impenetrably chaotic.
ama: How wonderful that I have met with a paradoxical contradiction and contradictory paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.smile
With regards to Niels Bohr, as quoted in L I Ponomarev, The Quantum Dice.
Out of my impenetrable chaos, you did get the penetratingly orderly sense that my presentation was impenetrably chaotic?smile
And, isn't there order in chaos, and vice versa?smile
So, you should now be able to do the opposite thingy!smile
Thanks too for your all the words in your thought.
And please ask questions, if there are any at all.
gjm: This is not a rationalist origin story, because it is not the story of how you became a rationalist. (It seems fairly clear that in fact you are not a rationalist. This is a description, not a criticism; most people are not rationalists, and manage just fine without being rationalists.) ama: Big thanx for all your thoughts.
Hmmm Am I not also rational and also a rationalist by agreeing with you, who are a rationalist, that I am not a rationalist? smile
And aren't you, to some degree, also not a rationalist by agreeing with me, who you say is not a rationalist, that I am not a rationalist? smile
I consider myself to be both rational and... (read 756 more words →)
Hey all,
Just joined.
Got here via Naked Capitalism and Yves Smith when she linked this article: "Self-Haters Donate More," which then linked "Haters Cheat Less."
Then the name of the site "Overcoming Bias" definitely got my attention!
My Rationalist Origin Story: ROS:
I had been digging in the Bible's backyard -- it's really the front yard, smile -- as a 37 year-old, and found over and over again where it was written that Moses only did as he was told when he had been told what to do and how to. It's in later chapters of Exodus. So Moses could not do as he had been told until he had been told how to do it.
Hmmmmm It got... (read 538 more words →)
I'll be brief too.
We love or hate because we have been taught to. Did you, as a child, ever hear statements beginning or ending with: ...'Whether you life it or not'...? Can you remember if it was about you eating what foods you hated?
Integers, which are infinite, are also all words. So compared to integers, words are equal in number to integers: -infinity/minus infinity to 0/zero and 0 to positive infinity are all integers which are also all words: 8 is eight. Therefore, since there are non-numeral words, the infinite set of words is greater than the infinite set of numbers/integers. qed. PS: Since by definition, infinities must be equal, there is way to equalize the larger... (read more)