Bias Is A Red Queen Game - by Robin Hanson

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In my last post I said that as “you must allocate a very limited budget of rationality”, we “must choose where to focus our efforts to attend carefully to avoiding possible biases.” Some objected, seeing the task of overcoming bias as like lifting weights to build muscles. Scott Alexander compared it to developing habits of good posture and lucid dreaming: If I can train myself to use proper aikido styles of movement even when I’m doing something stupid like opening a door, my body will become so used to them that they will be the style I default to when my mind is otherwise occupied. .. Lucid dreamers offer some techniques for realizing you’re in a dream, and suggest you practice them even when you are awake, especially when you are awake. The goal is to make them so natural that you could (and literally will) do them in your sleep. (more) One might also compare with habits like brushing your teeth regularly, or checking that your fly isn’t unzipped. There are indeed many possible goo

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. The Red Queen. In my last post I said that as “you must allocate a very limited budget of rationality”, we “must choose where to focus our efforts to attend carefully to avoiding possible biases.” Some objected, seeing the task of overcoming bias as like lifting weights to build muscles. Scott Alexander compared it to developing habits of good posture and lucid dreaming: If I can train myself to use proper aikido styles of movement even when I’m doing something stupid like opening a door, my body will become so used to them…

Bias Is A Red Queen Game - by Robin Hanson

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