Overcoming Bias

[temujin9]

Overcoming Bias is a masterwork philosophical thesis, cleverly disguised as a blog about rationality and cognitive bias. I've waited to pimp Eliezer Yudkowsky's work because with the heavy groundwork he was laying, I had the feeling he was building toward something strong. "Which parts of my brain are 'me'?" does not disappoint:
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[matt_arnold]

So true.

Too hard for me...

[sdelatpravilno]

Was too hard for me to understand... Maybe because I'm not a native English speaker. But the morality is the key to everything, I believe.

[izzi13]

It's a good read - thank you for posting the link.

w00t!

[nationelectric]

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/overcoming_bias/profile

OK, then

[holly_as_mom]

Well, he writes well, but he's hung up on the idea of being the discoverer of his discoveries: no one else has the right to have come to the same idea on their own. The comment section degenerates into a true pissing contest. Ho hum.

love, Mom

Re: OK, then

[temujin9]

I don't see him claiming exclusive discovery. He's made much reference to his sources, and raised too many parallels in other thought schools (esp. Zen), for me to buy that he'd want to.

I do see him pissing on the shoes of an older acquaintance who's trying to ride his coat-tails, despite having nothing useful to say. Impolite, sure, but so is trying to imply mentorship of someone that you've only impressed with your psuedo-intellectual arrogance.

And if I must choose between polite and right, well . . .

Re: OK, then

[temujin9]

And having read further, and encountered the rebuttal of the man he savaged: it looks almost completely deserved. I've known people like that, and if one tried to imply archly that he could show me a thing or two, I might laugh him out of the room too.