Counterbiases & Shifting The Default
Epistemic status: rough thoughts, but the technique described has been useful for me Suppose you know you have some bias, but also that you can't remove it. One option is to notice the bias, then try to think your way out of it - at least a little. For example,...
Apr 4, 20221
This is my first Lesswrong comment - any feedback appreciated.
My quick takes (with a similar conflict: I'm doing AIS field-building).
- I am inclined to agree with ~everything in this post.
- I think the status dynamics are hard to overstate.
- I know quite a few very competent builders / 'doers' who have bounced off EA/AIS.
- And part of this is about the elevated status given to researchers, especially in contrast with the way 'operations' people (a catch-all used to encompass a large fraction of everything else) are treated.
- The response I often hear, explicitly or in the undertones, is: 'But if they were really committed, they'd just do the thing that needs to be done.' So they are
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