I often found myself in a situation when I overupdated on the evidence. For example, if market fails 3 per cent, I used to start to think that economic collapse is soon.
Overupdating on random evidence is also a source of some conspiracy theories. A plate number of a car on my street is the same as my birthday? They must be watching me!
The protection trick here is “natural scepticism”: just not update if you want to update your believes. But in this case the prior system becomes too rigid.
The protection trick here is “natural scepticism”: just not update if you want to update your believes. But in this case the prior system becomes too rigid.
(not update if you want to protect your beliefs?, not update if you don’t want to update your beliefs?)
Skepticism isn’t just “not updating”. And protection from what?
I often found myself in a situation when I overupdated on the evidence. For example, if market fails 3 per cent, I used to start to think that economic collapse is soon.
Overupdating on random evidence is also a source of some conspiracy theories. A plate number of a car on my street is the same as my birthday? They must be watching me!
The protection trick here is “natural scepticism”: just not update if you want to update your believes. But in this case the prior system becomes too rigid.
(not update if you want to protect your beliefs?, not update if you don’t want to update your beliefs?)
Skepticism isn’t just “not updating”. And protection from what?