I think noticing stuff like this is important for rationality, and reporting/thinking about it is important for rationalism as a project. So nice job.
I think the flinching away you’re noticing is the source of motivated reasoning. If you flinch away from lines of thought that obviously lead to an emotionally uncomfortable conclusion, but don’t flinch away from thoughts/evidence that lead to more comfortable conclusions, you’ll wind up believing comrtable stuff more than the evidence and logic really indicate.
More in my brief blurt about the science of motivated reasoning. I should improve it to a proper post but I’m just too slow at writing to get that deep in the stack.
I think noticing stuff like this is important for rationality, and reporting/thinking about it is important for rationalism as a project. So nice job.
I think the flinching away you’re noticing is the source of motivated reasoning. If you flinch away from lines of thought that obviously lead to an emotionally uncomfortable conclusion, but don’t flinch away from thoughts/evidence that lead to more comfortable conclusions, you’ll wind up believing comrtable stuff more than the evidence and logic really indicate.
More in my brief blurt about the science of motivated reasoning. I should improve it to a proper post but I’m just too slow at writing to get that deep in the stack.