Interesting idea, paper. Your assertion is that because I have tried this and it works for me, I unreasonably weight its properties as helpful instead of objectively looking at it as another self-helpy useless trick? I suppose I am confused at the idea that because this idea may have helped me to establish the habit of writing in my journal, and the reflex of looking for opportunities to be rational, which seems positive.
I suppose I never stopped to think that i might be committing a typical mind fallacy when guessing that a useful habit which i used to train myself to be rationally opportunistic might be useful for lesswrong as a whole.
It is true that my post is attempting to optimize others. I am realistic enough to assume that everyone won’t try this, particularly those who are already optimized in this fashion, but I also don’t think that we should avoid posting potentially helpful techniques because we fear the mind projection fallacy and its other-optimizing subset.
Yet another self-help genre post with Mind Projection Fallacy written all over it.
Neh? Oh, do you mean this, a.k.a. the typical mind fallacy?
Still looks like an interesting exercise.
First link after searching for Mind Projection Fallacy.
Other-optimizing is a subset.
Interesting idea, paper. Your assertion is that because I have tried this and it works for me, I unreasonably weight its properties as helpful instead of objectively looking at it as another self-helpy useless trick? I suppose I am confused at the idea that because this idea may have helped me to establish the habit of writing in my journal, and the reflex of looking for opportunities to be rational, which seems positive.
I suppose I never stopped to think that i might be committing a typical mind fallacy when guessing that a useful habit which i used to train myself to be rationally opportunistic might be useful for lesswrong as a whole.
It is true that my post is attempting to optimize others. I am realistic enough to assume that everyone won’t try this, particularly those who are already optimized in this fashion, but I also don’t think that we should avoid posting potentially helpful techniques because we fear the mind projection fallacy and its other-optimizing subset.