10/ Paul Graham's objective function as venture capitalist with a near religious following is probably quite different than yours and mind. That's not me saying he's wrong generally, but his beliefs are subject to very different selective pressures than mine and most yours.
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11/ Given OPs use of 'neutral' and the previous posts which mistakenly conflated evolving language with "a dramatic shift to the left," it seems like his prescribed objective function demands, i) an unbiased sample for attention allocation; ii) identity-less presentation.
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12/ The former I want desperately. (And am slowly working on.) But, it's a remarkably challenging socio-technical problem where good solutions are mostly less wrong ones with lots of uncertainty. (E.g. descriptive representation w.r.t. one trait isn't going to get the job done.)
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13/ The latter — identity-less presentation — is something I increasingly think *everyone* gets wrong.
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14/ PG drew some pretty bad inferences because social cognition — being faster and more integrated — caused him to process certain words as identities and out-groups, coloring his downstream perceptions and resulting quality of deliberation.
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15/ And guess what? The same mechanisms cause you to make similar mistakes, as they do for me. And, that *is* a problem because identity cues are so terribly reliable now that careful deliberation affords little boosting.
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16/ Polarization begets segmentation; segmentation begs polarization. The set of shared beliefs vanishes rapidly. Perception of ideological bias becomes omnipresent.
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The key question is: does this using this heuristic provide gain; make me more right than if I didn't? And that's about context. If nobody else is using it, even a biased heuristic is often a good shortcut. If everyone else is, it just increases your bias.
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So the first meta-heuristic is: be a bit contrarian. But! It's a really, really bad idea to extend that meta-heuristic to "only trust contrarians". Usually, the majority is right.
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The part I'm trying to figure out: I know that for minority groups, "discount the outgroup" is a survival heuristic. If you took every outgroup troll seriously, you'd end up Gish galloping yourself, and could never build a community. But it can obviously go to far. So, my ?:
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Uhhh...next time we talk we're gonna have to talk about this in more depth because this is exactly the type of sampling/integration/transformation thinking that's motivated the last bunch of years of my life.
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