I’m not worried about my ideas being ignored so much as actively doing harm to the group epistemics by making people irritated with my pushback, and by association, irritated with the questions I raise and therefore resistant to thinking about them.
LessWrong does seem way less prone to motivated reasoning. I think this is because rationalism demands actually being proud of changing your mind. This value provides resistance but not immunity to motivated reasoning. I want to write a post about this.
If you wrote this exact post, it would have been upvoted enough for the Redwood team to see it, and they would have engaged with you similarly to how they engaged with John here (modulo some familiarity, because theyse people all know each other at least somewhat, and in some pairs very well actually).
If you wrote several posts like this, that were of some quality, you would lose the ability to appeal to your own standing as a reason not to write a post.
This is all I’m trying to transmit.
[edit: I see you already made the update I was encouraging, an hour after leaving the above comment to me. Yay!]
I’m not worried about my ideas being ignored so much as actively doing harm to the group epistemics by making people irritated with my pushback, and by association, irritated with the questions I raise and therefore resistant to thinking about them.
I am pretty sure that motivated reasoning does that, and it’s a huge problem for progress in existing fields. More here: Motivated reasoning/confirmation bias as the most important cognitive bias
LessWrong does seem way less prone to motivated reasoning. I think this is because rationalism demands actually being proud of changing your mind. This value provides resistance but not immunity to motivated reasoning. I want to write a post about this.
If you wrote this exact post, it would have been upvoted enough for the Redwood team to see it, and they would have engaged with you similarly to how they engaged with John here (modulo some familiarity, because theyse people all know each other at least somewhat, and in some pairs very well actually).
If you wrote several posts like this, that were of some quality, you would lose the ability to appeal to your own standing as a reason not to write a post.
This is all I’m trying to transmit.
[edit: I see you already made the update I was encouraging, an hour after leaving the above comment to me. Yay!]