Does personal knowledge about psychology or rationality actually help with large or small personal decision making? Seems like a premise of learning about cognitive biases, LessWrong, etc.
Not familiar with the terms so I looked em up. Basically, are you saying de-biasing is good for figuring out whether to adopt a goal but harmful when planning the steps for achieving a goal? Is this a correct read?
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Sorry for not being clear! When we're figuring out our goals and how to reach them, it's helpful to de-bias, to be more accurate. Once we figure out our goals and process, we switch to implementation mindset. De-biasing is harmful here because it tends to reduce overconfidence.
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Forgot to mention that implementation mindset is where we actually work towards our goal. Overconfidence is useful because it improves the chances of success. I first came across deliberative/implemental mindset in Phil Rosenzweig's book "Left Brain, Right Stuff".
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Cool, thanks for the clarification. Interesting you are optimizing for preserving over-confidence. Sounds like what I mentioned here https://twitter.com/backus/status/987223845575639040 … I might also argue that you might just waste your time too trying to debias each step vs. just executing
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That's a good view! We should debias when planning things, but be biased when executing things. There is some spillover between these two mindsets, but the spillover can be reduced with practice
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