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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Yeah, you can do it that way. But will only work to extent you add enough epicycles so that it is no longer falsifiable. But also so it no longer adds any predictive power. So why bother?
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