I don’t understand your first question. I can’t tell that I’m not, because (as you say) it’s possible that I am. Did I say something that looked like “I know that I am not in any way suffering from confirmation bias”? Because I’m pretty sure I didn’t mean to.
Also, not suffering from confirmation bias (in general, or on any particular point) is a difficult sort of thing to get concrete evidence of. In a world where I have no confirmation bias at all regarding some belief of mine, I don’t think I would expect to have any evidence of that that I could point to.
What official LW positions would you expect there to be errata for?
(Individual posts on LW sometimes get retracted or corrected or whatever: see e.g. “Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction” where Sarah Constantin says that a previous post of hers was wrong about a bunch of things, or “Using the universal prior for logical uncertainty (retracted)” where cousin_it proposed something and retracted it when someone found an error. I don’t know whether Scott Alexander is LW-adjacent enough to be relevant in your mind, but he has a page of notable mistakes he’s made. But it sounds as if you’re looking more specifically for cases where the LW community has strongly committed itself to a particular position and then officially decided that that was a mistake. I don’t know of any such cases, but it’s not obvious to me why there should be any. Where are your errata in that sense? Where are (say) Richard Feynman’s? If you have in mind some concrete examples where LW should have errata, they might be interesting.)
Yup, academics revise and retract things. So, where are Richard Feynman’s errata? Show me.
The answer, I think, is that there isn’t a single answer to that question. Presumably there are some individual mistakes which he corrected (though I don’t know of, e.g., any papers that he retracted) -- the analogues of the individual posts I listed a few of above. But I don’t know of any case where he said “whoops, I was completely wrong about something fundamental”, and if you open any of his books I don’t think you’ll find any prominent list of mistakes or anything like that.
As you say, science is noted for having very good practices around admitting and fixing mistakes. Feynman is noted for having been a very good scientist. So show me how he meets your challenge better than Less Wrong does.
No, you haven’t “already told me” concrete examples. You’ve gestured towards a bunch of things you claim have been refuted, but given no details, no links, nothing. You haven’t said what was wrong, or what would have been right instead, or who found the alleged mistakes, or how the LW community reacted, or anything.
Unless I missed it, of course. That’s always possible. Got a link?
I don’t understand your first question. I can’t tell that I’m not, because (as you say) it’s possible that I am. Did I say something that looked like “I know that I am not in any way suffering from confirmation bias”? Because I’m pretty sure I didn’t mean to.
Also, not suffering from confirmation bias (in general, or on any particular point) is a difficult sort of thing to get concrete evidence of. In a world where I have no confirmation bias at all regarding some belief of mine, I don’t think I would expect to have any evidence of that that I could point to.
What official LW positions would you expect there to be errata for?
(Individual posts on LW sometimes get retracted or corrected or whatever: see e.g. “Industry Matters 2: Partial Retraction” where Sarah Constantin says that a previous post of hers was wrong about a bunch of things, or “Using the universal prior for logical uncertainty (retracted)” where cousin_it proposed something and retracted it when someone found an error. I don’t know whether Scott Alexander is LW-adjacent enough to be relevant in your mind, but he has a page of notable mistakes he’s made. But it sounds as if you’re looking more specifically for cases where the LW community has strongly committed itself to a particular position and then officially decided that that was a mistake. I don’t know of any such cases, but it’s not obvious to me why there should be any. Where are your errata in that sense? Where are (say) Richard Feynman’s? If you have in mind some concrete examples where LW should have errata, they might be interesting.)
Good grief… academics revise and retract things all the times. The very word “errata” comes from.the world of academic publishing!
I’ve already told you.
Yup, academics revise and retract things. So, where are Richard Feynman’s errata? Show me.
The answer, I think, is that there isn’t a single answer to that question. Presumably there are some individual mistakes which he corrected (though I don’t know of, e.g., any papers that he retracted) -- the analogues of the individual posts I listed a few of above. But I don’t know of any case where he said “whoops, I was completely wrong about something fundamental”, and if you open any of his books I don’t think you’ll find any prominent list of mistakes or anything like that.
As you say, science is noted for having very good practices around admitting and fixing mistakes. Feynman is noted for having been a very good scientist. So show me how he meets your challenge better than Less Wrong does.
No, you haven’t “already told me” concrete examples. You’ve gestured towards a bunch of things you claim have been refuted, but given no details, no links, nothing. You haven’t said what was wrong, or what would have been right instead, or who found the alleged mistakes, or how the LW community reacted, or anything.
Unless I missed it, of course. That’s always possible. Got a link?
Einstein admitted to a “greatest mistake”.
So did Eliezer Yudkowsky. What’s your point?
I am using lesswrong exclusively of the codexes.