Confused criticism. This might be an example of a larger topic—that every statement and every intention is actually a bunch of statements and intentions bundled together, and one of the things which causes communication logjams is a person says X, which is really composed of x1 + x2.+.....xN, and someone says X is wrong (thinking that x3 is highly defective), and the original person doesn’t even realize that x3 might be seen as part of X.
It looks like I just complicated the problem further—the premises underlying X may be somewhat a matter of opinion. This certainly comes into play when people are looking for why someone said X.
Xander’s lament. Cognitive psych seems to me like rationality that doesn’t require huge amounts of intelligence. Instead of explaining why rationality is important and what biases are, cog psych just dives in, teaching pattern matching for some common sorts of irrationality.
Note: it’s not possible to avoid being wrong all the time. There’s a reason this blog is called “Less Wrong”, not “Getting Some Things Right”.
Post-postmodernism. How much do you know about post-modernism? It seems to me that I see a lot of complaining about a sketchy overview, and I don’t think I need more of that. I don’t know much about post-modernism, but I think I can smell it when someone is attacking a stereotype rather than something with details and complexity and history.
If you actually know something about post-modernism, go for it.
Optimization and monoculture. This sounds interesting.
Cognitive psych seems to me like rationality that doesn’t require huge amounts of intelligence. Instead of explaining why rationality is important and what biases are, cog psych just dives in, teaching pattern matching for some common sorts of irrationality.
A lot of ‘rationality’ appears to be “think things through carefully instead of using heuristics,” which definitely requires intelligence (at the very least, thinking speed) to do in real-time.
Confused criticism. This might be an example of a larger topic—that every statement and every intention is actually a bunch of statements and intentions bundled together, and one of the things which causes communication logjams is a person says X, which is really composed of x1 + x2.+.....xN, and someone says X is wrong (thinking that x3 is highly defective), and the original person doesn’t even realize that x3 might be seen as part of X.
It looks like I just complicated the problem further—the premises underlying X may be somewhat a matter of opinion. This certainly comes into play when people are looking for why someone said X.
Xander’s lament. Cognitive psych seems to me like rationality that doesn’t require huge amounts of intelligence. Instead of explaining why rationality is important and what biases are, cog psych just dives in, teaching pattern matching for some common sorts of irrationality.
Note: it’s not possible to avoid being wrong all the time. There’s a reason this blog is called “Less Wrong”, not “Getting Some Things Right”.
Post-postmodernism. How much do you know about post-modernism? It seems to me that I see a lot of complaining about a sketchy overview, and I don’t think I need more of that. I don’t know much about post-modernism, but I think I can smell it when someone is attacking a stereotype rather than something with details and complexity and history.
If you actually know something about post-modernism, go for it.
Optimization and monoculture. This sounds interesting.
A lot of ‘rationality’ appears to be “think things through carefully instead of using heuristics,” which definitely requires intelligence (at the very least, thinking speed) to do in real-time.