There’s no sharp line between Doing It On Purpose and not.
Being explicit about it makes it more on purpose, and engages more System 2 careful sequential thought, that clarifies whether you want to do this or not.
I think the phenomenon you’re describing is downstream of this common error in thinking about people.
I think it’s a very impactful error, both in reasoning about ourselves and others.
Yes exactly; I’m curious about how many more opportunities for greater intentionality/reflective-endorsement might be lurking in other areas, where I just haven’t created the right test/handle (but may believe that I’ve created the right one).
I’m also mindful of the opposite failure mode, though, where attempting to surface something to yourself internally actually causes you to over-index on it, leading to paralysis, where the thing was only present in very small doses and your threshold was poorly calibrated.
There’s no sharp line between Doing It On Purpose and not.
Being explicit about it makes it more on purpose, and engages more System 2 careful sequential thought, that clarifies whether you want to do this or not.
I think the phenomenon you’re describing is downstream of this common error in thinking about people.
I think it’s a very impactful error, both in reasoning about ourselves and others.
Yes exactly; I’m curious about how many more opportunities for greater intentionality/reflective-endorsement might be lurking in other areas, where I just haven’t created the right test/handle (but may believe that I’ve created the right one).
I’m also mindful of the opposite failure mode, though, where attempting to surface something to yourself internally actually causes you to over-index on it, leading to paralysis, where the thing was only present in very small doses and your threshold was poorly calibrated.