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> It's deeply dishonest, but I'm not convinced they're even aware of this. I suspect you might be confusing a mistake for a conflict, as described here: https:
by yellowstuff 7y ago
> It's deeply dishonest, but I'm not convinced they're even aware of this.
I suspect you might be confusing a mistake for a conflict, as described here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
You quite naturally see a discussion of a cipher as an attempt to find the truth, and it barely registers for you that it might not be. They probably see a discussion of their cipher as an attempt to persuade, so they use the most effective argument they can think of at a given time, and it barely registers for them that the discussion could be an unbiased attempt to find the truth.
- jiggawatts 7y agoThat's an interesting article, but I think it's oversimplifying things, which I suppose makes me a Mistake Theorist. 8) I prefer to think of people's traits not in simple binary terms, but more in terms of high-dimensional attributes. Think: word2vec. In practice, I find that people are messy. They have their own interests, and hence there's conflict, but they're also lazy, hence the mistakes. There's plenty of room for several kinds of suboptimal behaviour in their squishy meat brains. Sometimes I feel like I'm The Man From Earth, watching this craziness unfold from the outside. PS: Watch it, it's a good movie.