Reading this I get the sense that slipperiness is special cases of favoring your priors too strongly in one way or another. I point this out because it seems like an instance of the general class of issues I might call “confusion” where you fail to notice what the world is telling you and you believe something because it fits how you see the world rather than believing what the world is showing you.
I thought about confusion as I was writing this post. Confusion shares the property with “slipperiness” of being hard-to-notice. I currently think it’s a different thing, although I agree there’s some similarities.
I think of confusion as a specific phenonema (whereas “Slipperiness” is more of a description of a phenomena). In my language, confusion is when you don’t have an explanation for what’s going on. (Failing to notice you’re confused is an additional thing that can happen to you. Maybe failing to notice that you’re confused is a “slippery” state)
Reading this I get the sense that slipperiness is special cases of favoring your priors too strongly in one way or another. I point this out because it seems like an instance of the general class of issues I might call “confusion” where you fail to notice what the world is telling you and you believe something because it fits how you see the world rather than believing what the world is showing you.
I thought about confusion as I was writing this post. Confusion shares the property with “slipperiness” of being hard-to-notice. I currently think it’s a different thing, although I agree there’s some similarities.
I think of confusion as a specific phenonema (whereas “Slipperiness” is more of a description of a phenomena). In my language, confusion is when you don’t have an explanation for what’s going on. (Failing to notice you’re confused is an additional thing that can happen to you. Maybe failing to notice that you’re confused is a “slippery” state)