RationalDino

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by RationalDino 3y ago
I've never seen that one. I would say that his solution is to analyze it twice, once from your current view, one from a cynical one. Look at where you get changes. Those are places to look for possible errors in your current thinking.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
While I believe that there is an unbiased truth, my conclusion is that it is not necessarily something that I can discover. I do not believe that those in the news are in a significantly better position to discover it either. This strongly
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by RationalDino 3y ago
It is both an invitation and a conclusion. As you note, we need to decide who to trust, and we can't do sufficient research. So we need heuristics. The heuristics that I recommend are these: 1. Certainty, especially if there is debate
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I explicitly make no such assumptions. And the fact that I didn't, really matters here. While I assume that you get true (though filtered) statements from some on each side, I'm also assuming that there are unreliable (read dishon
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I don't see any snarl. The law requires disclosure so that companies can't hide material information from investors. The SEC wants all incentives lined up so that companies will choose to report. The primary way that the SEC catch
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Oh, it gets worse. One of our biases is towards conservation of mental energy. If we can, we choose the easiest path. Which means that we actively prefer experts who are smart, well-informed, and certain of their beliefs. Because we can the
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The impossibility of rationally analyzing partisan news(lesswrong.com)
41 points by RationalDino 3y ago|56 comments
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by RationalDino 3y ago
You remind me of the following. At about the same age, I bought my son a mango lassi. He looked suspiciously at it, but took a sip. With a look of shocked delight he tilted it back, back, back, and emptied the cup! Then he put it down, look
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Hold that thought, and consider the following. Since the 1980s, the black-white income gap has been rising. Two contributing causes are racially biased law enforcement outcomes (particularly from the escalation of the drug war), and the aba
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I read that as you're so firmly into an us vs them mindset that you slot everyone into one of those buckets. And so anyone with a dissenting opinion becomes either an evil conservative, or a stooge of the evil conservatives. What does
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by RationalDino 3y ago
There are more than 2 sides here. Read https://www.thefp.com/p/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense for a perspective from a liberal lesbian Jew who is concerned about censorship and current progressive ideologies. She opp
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by RationalDino 3y ago
As a parent, my son and I are both mostly concerned with his ability to learn and that he has a good college experience. Of the two of us, he's more concerned that I am about the indoctrination in some of his required courses. Then aga
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Read https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g... . In the last few years, a lot of parents have struggled with children having bad thought patterns that lead to mental health problems. Including me.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
You haven't said enough for anyone to offer real help. I mean you've got to accept that he won't be aware of, let alone considerate of, other people's feelings. Social rules will be a challenge for him. He won't res
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I have an answer, but it isn't one that the author of the blog would like. My answer goes back to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Kuhn described what he called a paradigm. And described the difference betw
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Perfect! My favorite line of research involving this is using the trolley problem to get at hidden moral biases that we normally wouldn't admit to ourselves. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/given-the-choice-l
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by RationalDino 3y ago
You are making unjustified assumptions. I am a person who doesn't wish to spend $20,000 on a rock so that my wife won't be embarrassed in front of her friends. And that is why I chose to marry a woman who thinks that spending $20,
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by RationalDino 3y ago
While there were bad actors within the EA movement, I don't believe that most involved with EA were truly aware of the level of hypocrisy that you're discussing.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
What should matter is how many lives are lost and how many are saved. But the trolley problem shows that in practice we care more about whether we were the one to throw a switch than the cost in human lives of our decision.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
EA sounds rational and wonderful. And it does make sense. We should follow our logic to its rational conclusions. Our moral intuitions are obviously wrong a lot - just look at the trolley problem. With reason we can do better. The problem i
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by RationalDino 3y ago
If the education system worked some spaced repetition into courses, they would be able to teach more material with less effort. And people would retain it better. No amount of intense cramming upon the first encounter can help You need rein
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Most people who go through school don't learn to become competent writers. This is shows that school does not teach people to be competent writers. So competent writers generally did not learn that skill in school. At best they learned
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Weird. It works for me. It says: Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing.
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Google has now called me more than 200 times(twitter.com)
3 points by RationalDino 3y ago|3 comments
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by RationalDino 3y ago
If you think that Stoicism says that suffering is noble, then you don't understand Stoicism. It focuses on emotional tools that let you do what you think is important, without normal difficulties causing you undue suffering. And it is
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by RationalDino 3y ago
It's like a comment I originally made about mindfulness meditation. It helps you be more effective at doing what you want to do. This might not be a good thing if what you want to do is be an asshole. The corollary, of course, is tha
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by RationalDino 3y ago
The Daily Stoic was created by Ryan Holiday. I believe that he really did a lot to encourage current popularity for Stoicism. But it is interesting to note that he seems to have gotten into Stoic philosophy to make up for the sins that he c
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by RationalDino 3y ago
You might mean different things by "formal logic". It makes a lot of sense to teach Aristotelian logic either before or with Aristotle. But modern mathematical logic really is a different field.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
The way that I look at it is this. Much of philosophy is about logic and analysis. Stoicism is about lived experience. When you're engaged in complex intellectual debate, there seems to me more to areas with logic and analysis. And tha
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by RationalDino 3y ago
This ties to an important fact about how cancer works. A cell has a long journey to becoming cancerous. It involves cell damage that is imperfectly repaired. A cell once injured is therefore liable to become cancer, but may not take the nex

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