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by belorn
4548 days ago
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> but the argument seems involve the claim that some people have no need for formal methods to correct their biases. I beg to differ, everyone needs that Demanding that everyone has a formal method to correct biases only provable in statistics, really do go back to the "Prove that you're not a witch" argument a few comments ago. The exact same proof can be found against different color of skin, names and clothes. It can be found in parents who has more than one children. Statistical proven biases exist everywhere. Yet, a formal method should only really be needed once the bias is found to actually exist on a individual level. Everything else would be insane. |
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Wouldn't a better approach be incorporating formal, rational methods into everyone's individual thought processes from the beginning? In other words, I believe adopting the overt rationality advocated by the likes of http://lesswrong.com/ would almost automatically correct a lot of societal problems caused by bias.