Learning about the halo and horns biases has helped me make more accurate predictions about people’s actions, realize that my friends are terrible people and my enemies are pretty cool.
Hearing Eliezer’s solutions to philosophical problems has made me stop wasting so much time on those philosophical problems, which is an advantage I’ve gained from Overcoming Bias, but not really from increased rationality.
Learning about the halo and horns biases has helped me make more accurate predictions about people’s actions, realize that my friends are terrible people and my enemies are pretty cool.
Hearing Eliezer’s solutions to philosophical problems has made me stop wasting so much time on those philosophical problems, which is an advantage I’ve gained from Overcoming Bias, but not really from increased rationality.