In such dilemmas, I think the best thing is to figure out what is it your “corrupted hardware” wants to do and do the opposite—do the opposite what your instincts i.e. evolved biases suggest.
Instinct != stupidity. This is a different thing here. Leaning towards an idea comes both from finding it true and liking it. If you equally lean towards two ideas, but like one more, that suggests you subconsciously find that less true. So if you go for the one you dislike, you probably go for an idea you find subconsciously more true.Leaning towards an idea you dislike suggests you found so much truth in it, subconsciously, that it even overcame the ugh-field that came from disliking it. And that is a remarkably lot of truth.
Reversed stupidity is a different thing. That is a lot like “Since there is no such thing as Adam and Eve’s original sin, human nature cannot have any factory bugs and must be infinitely perfectible.” (Age of Enlightenment philosophy.) That is reversed stupidity.
If you equally lean towards two ideas, but like one more, that suggests you subconsciously find that less true.
And it could also mean that you just think the evidence for that proposition is better. Your argument looks more like post-hoc reasoning for a preferred conclusion rather than something that is empirically true.
Reversed stupidity is a different thing.
I’m sorry, but if you subconsciously like a false idea more often than chance then this quote still applies:
If you knew someone who was wrong 99.99% of the time on yes-or-no questions, you could obtain 99.99% accuracy just by reversing their answers. They would need to do all the work of obtaining good evidence entangled with reality, and processing that evidence coherently, just to anticorrelate that reliably. They would have to be superintelligent to be that stupid.
You cannot determine the truth of a proposition from whether you like it or not, you have to look at the evidence itself. There are no short-cuts here.
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
Instinct != stupidity. This is a different thing here. Leaning towards an idea comes both from finding it true and liking it. If you equally lean towards two ideas, but like one more, that suggests you subconsciously find that less true. So if you go for the one you dislike, you probably go for an idea you find subconsciously more true.Leaning towards an idea you dislike suggests you found so much truth in it, subconsciously, that it even overcame the ugh-field that came from disliking it. And that is a remarkably lot of truth.
Reversed stupidity is a different thing. That is a lot like “Since there is no such thing as Adam and Eve’s original sin, human nature cannot have any factory bugs and must be infinitely perfectible.” (Age of Enlightenment philosophy.) That is reversed stupidity.
It is a different thing. It is reversed affect.
And it could also mean that you just think the evidence for that proposition is better. Your argument looks more like post-hoc reasoning for a preferred conclusion rather than something that is empirically true.
I’m sorry, but if you subconsciously like a false idea more often than chance then this quote still applies:
You cannot determine the truth of a proposition from whether you like it or not, you have to look at the evidence itself. There are no short-cuts here.