a natural immunity (well, aversion) to adopting complex generators, and a natural affinity for simple explanations
I think this is wrong in an important way… most people find math complex, even when it describes simple things, and they find (simple) human and animal behaviours and emotions simple, even though they are some of the most complex natural phenomena I am aware of. So a more accurate statement would be “people have biases in the space of possible explanations that sometimes lead them toward overly complex explanations and sometimes lead them to overly simple explanations”.
Then we could recover your original claim that in the space of explanations of human behaviour, people are more likely to look for overly simple explanations than for overly complex explanations. But I think in explaining human behaviour people often do both, and when looking for sufficiently complex explanations, it is still true that more of them are wrong than are right.
Nope, that’s all coming from your expectations, not from me.
Right. Sorry if it caused any offence. People often seem motivated to misunderstand and condemn others, so I wouldn’t fault anyone for not wanting to say what they truly mean when discussing topics like these.
I think this is wrong in an important way… most people find math complex, even when it describes simple things, and they find (simple) human and animal behaviours and emotions simple, even though they are some of the most complex natural phenomena I am aware of. So a more accurate statement would be “people have biases in the space of possible explanations that sometimes lead them toward overly complex explanations and sometimes lead them to overly simple explanations”.
Then we could recover your original claim that in the space of explanations of human behaviour, people are more likely to look for overly simple explanations than for overly complex explanations. But I think in explaining human behaviour people often do both, and when looking for sufficiently complex explanations, it is still true that more of them are wrong than are right.
Right. Sorry if it caused any offence. People often seem motivated to misunderstand and condemn others, so I wouldn’t fault anyone for not wanting to say what they truly mean when discussing topics like these.