Indeed. And even for an “in training rationalist” (I did read the Sequences and try to be a rationalist, but I don’t consider myself “black belt”), I found it quite hard to dissociate the “what I think is the best answer” from “what I think people think is the best answer”, it required some kind of mental effort, more than I would have said it requires beforehand.
Indeed. And even for an “in training rationalist” (I did read the Sequences and try to be a rationalist, but I don’t consider myself “black belt”), I found it quite hard to dissociate the “what I think is the best answer” from “what I think people think is the best answer”, it required some kind of mental effort, more than I would have said it requires beforehand.
As an anecdote, I had an opposite slight tendency to go for what seemed like the worst answer and I had to switch answers twice because of this.