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btw, yud failure mode and something i see in a lot of rats:
Lacking humility and lacking the propensity to take time to understand and appreciate that which isnt immediately obviously valuable - especially things that take reworking ones interpretation and realising that ones first interpretation was wrong.
It's a humility + path dependant interpretation failure solution: when having a feeling of dismissal and high confidence on something from little data, noticing that and training this sense - and also training the sense of noticing when a strong feeling/interpretation is downstream of just one particular viewpoint - similarly to noticing when one either loves/hates a person/thing just because of one person telling them lots and lots of good/bad things about it. But instead of the source being just one person, its one or two types of interpretation.
Combines quite strongly with this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/arwATwCTscahYwTzD/the-most-common-bad-argument-in-these-parts
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