Would Dan make this same logical error if it didn’t favor his political party?https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1165403952411750401 …
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(Notice: motivated reasoning doesn’t just bias how we process data. But also how we distort logic. Which is harder to explain with a “but maybe he isn’t fully informed or has strong priors” story.)
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(Also: such logical distortions don’t just show up when debating politics. The same happens when debating morals. Which is the kinda thing I mean when I say moral reasoning involves “logic,” but isn’t *actually* logical, cause like w/ political discourse, it’s mostly motivated.)
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(Lastly: anyone have any idea the rules of such pseudo-logic? Like what kinda distortions people are more likely to use, when motivated? Not so obvious to me. But errors don’t seem random. There’s gotta be a pattern to it. But what’s the pattern? What errors more liable to work?)
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
I tend to learn the most about this sort of dynamic when I catch myself doing it in some fashion.
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Replying to @chophshiy
Imo it’s pretty ever present. How else could we, for instance, justify our morals? (Which, after all, are necessarily riddled w/ inconsistencies. Not to mention usually meant to cover up for more selfish motives we don’t wanna cop to.)
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Replying to @Doxosophoi @chophshiy
Actual logic is. Not the logic humans use when making arguments. That’s my point. That’s how we know moral discourse ain’t actually logical. And why I am wondering what are the rules of this pseudo logic.
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I think that moral reasoning is at first based on priors, which get replaced by game theoretical insights, with suitably long games to encompass societies.
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And priors tend to have mad inertia, due to the cost of shifting them by reasoning, rather than direct exp?
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Among the priors is a prior to police the priors of others.
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