Okay, for me the whole paradox breaks down to this:
I have limited brainpower and my hardware is corrupted. I am not able to solve all problems, and even where I believe I have a solution, I can’t trust myself. On the other hand, I should use all the intelligence I have, simply because there is no convincing argument why doing anything else would be better.
Using my reasoning to study my reasoning itself, and the biases thereof, here are some typical failure modes: those are the things I probably shouldn’t do even if they seem rational. Now I’m kinda meta-reasoning about where should I follow my reasoning and where not. And things are getting confusing; probably because I am getting closer to limits of my rationality. Still, there is no better way for me to act.
From the outside, this may seem like having dozen random excuses. But there are no better solutions. So the socially savvy solution is to shut up and pretend the whole topic doesn’t even exist. It doesn’t help to solve the problem, but it helps to save face. Sweeping the human irrationality under the rug instead of exposing it and then admitting that you, too, are only a human.
Wow, these are very interesting examples!
Okay, for me the whole paradox breaks down to this:
I have limited brainpower and my hardware is corrupted. I am not able to solve all problems, and even where I believe I have a solution, I can’t trust myself. On the other hand, I should use all the intelligence I have, simply because there is no convincing argument why doing anything else would be better.
Using my reasoning to study my reasoning itself, and the biases thereof, here are some typical failure modes: those are the things I probably shouldn’t do even if they seem rational. Now I’m kinda meta-reasoning about where should I follow my reasoning and where not. And things are getting confusing; probably because I am getting closer to limits of my rationality. Still, there is no better way for me to act.
From the outside, this may seem like having dozen random excuses. But there are no better solutions. So the socially savvy solution is to shut up and pretend the whole topic doesn’t even exist. It doesn’t help to solve the problem, but it helps to save face. Sweeping the human irrationality under the rug instead of exposing it and then admitting that you, too, are only a human.