+1 to the content. I’ve been meaning to write something up about how I think this is the primary source of biases for humans—if you go through the bias sequences, they all seem to be things related to this.
Meta: This post feels like lesswrong “repeating itself” to me. I would have liked it to have a “related posts on less wrong” section, or etc, to avoid repeating discussion.
It seems to me that Kaj is saying that he didn’t know this after reading the Sequences. In light of that, it’s not repetition. It’s very possible that this post still didn’t convey the content that he was trying to convey to you, the tacit knowledge drawn from books and life outside of LW. To me, the post seems novel, but also vulnerable to not being taken literally. I feel that if it was taken literally and then exceptions were enumerated, elucidating patterns would appear. In light of that, I’ll start in a new post.
+1 to the content. I’ve been meaning to write something up about how I think this is the primary source of biases for humans—if you go through the bias sequences, they all seem to be things related to this.
Meta: This post feels like lesswrong “repeating itself” to me. I would have liked it to have a “related posts on less wrong” section, or etc, to avoid repeating discussion.
It seems to me that Kaj is saying that he didn’t know this after reading the Sequences. In light of that, it’s not repetition. It’s very possible that this post still didn’t convey the content that he was trying to convey to you, the tacit knowledge drawn from books and life outside of LW. To me, the post seems novel, but also vulnerable to not being taken literally. I feel that if it was taken literally and then exceptions were enumerated, elucidating patterns would appear. In light of that, I’ll start in a new post.