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People mostly seem to object to the security guard example as missing a part of the analysis.
by MattGaiser 5y ago
People mostly seem to object to the security guard example as missing a part of the analysis.
- PaulHoule 5y agoI suspect a lot of them are stopping when they see that when is bogus and aren't bothering to poke holes in the rest of them. Readers have their own heuristics, but that doesn't mean the rest of the examples aren't full of holes.
- ravi-delia 5y agoIt's really not about several examples of the same thing, but interrogating our intuitions around each one. I at least found I felt differently about different heuristics being replaced by rocks.
- moffkalast 5y agoSeems like the article writer has fallen for the very issue they're trying to portray, by writing so many examples that they've stopped thinking and just resorted to writing "PERSON CAN BE REPLACED WITH ROCK". If this isn't ironic then I don't know what is.
- PaulHoule 5y ago"Rationalism" is so ironic you might say it is an iron or at least made of iron.
- isleyaardvark 5y agoAll of them are missing a big part of the analysis, that it is often not a choice of “a rock” but of a person with a heuristic that works way less than 99.9% of the time. A security guard that constantly harasses shoppers, a “futurist” that buys into every new fad, the conspiracy theorist that believes everything on Facebook. Would anyone really think a weatherman that had say a 70% correct heuristic was good? Or go to a doctor like that?
- PaulHoule 5y agoI was thinking of that scene in Modern Times where Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Tramp’ gets hired as a security guard.