And it amuses me when rationalists get frustrated at the elementary errors, and mistakenly think that they “should know better”, despite the overwhelming evidence that they don’t. It especially amuses me when that rationalist is me. I should know better, and I do upon reflection, but rarely do in the moment.
I calm myself with the idea that if I don’t know how to be more intelligent, it isn’t reasonable for me to expect people who are less intelligent than I am to know how to be more intelligent.
And it amuses me when rationalists get frustrated at the elementary errors, and mistakenly think that they “should know better”, despite the overwhelming evidence that they don’t. It especially amuses me when that rationalist is me. I should know better, and I do upon reflection, but rarely do in the moment.
I calm myself with the idea that if I don’t know how to be more intelligent, it isn’t reasonable for me to expect people who are less intelligent than I am to know how to be more intelligent.
It seems our brains really are built to assume short inferential distances.