once upon a time i wrote a blog post about “conceptual gerrymandering” and it must have been really bad because nobody understood it but i think the underlying concept is still sound and important actually
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This happens progressively with anyone who rationalizes instead of reasoning. "Oh, I know it seems like X is an A according to the framework I've laid out, but there is a subtlety you are missing here."
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Can also be compared to progressively increasing the variance of a mental model such that it is overfit to the data points which conveniently happen to match the desired conclusions of the gerrymanderer.
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ah tying it to overfitting is a nice connection!