Here's a new parent bias: you imagine that your children are more normal than they are.
For example, with neither of my children did I need much in the way of burping rags. There's all kinds of things that you imagine are universal experiences but it turns out are idiosyncratic to your children.
My cousin had a child about the same time as my first child. When our children were both about two, he asked me, "How do you deal with the biting? Any tips?" And my answer was, "Uh, my daughter doesn't bite people." Unspoken -- BECAUSE I'M A GOOD PARENT.
Three years later, when my second child was two, OH, THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT. All this stuff that we thought we had figured out and nailed down with child 1 it turned out no, she was just predisposed to be easy for that.
I'm thankful that Scott Alexander exists. SSC for me is a knock-down argument against credentialism: It turns out that if there's an extremely smart guy, and he thinks very hard and writes very well, most of what he has to say is better than what most of the experts had to say.
Also, as a reactionary, I'm grateful that Scott, starting with zero of the typical right-wing priors (i.e. he's not traditionally religious/conservative/racist/sexist/whatever) has been able to observe and dissect so many of the fallacies, lunacies and blind spots of orthodox woke dogma merely through the use of reason, logic and observation, and point them out in a way that mostly avoids triggering the hysterics and allowing them to dismiss him as "just a religious/racist/sexist whatever."
On the issue of prior vs. bias, isn't that a prior is my degree of belief about something and a bias the way that evidence affects my belief? If I encounter a piece of evidence that goes against my belief, but instead I strengthen my belief, that is bias.
" like when anorexia becomes more common in places it never was after the concept is introduced" I've read about this somewhere, but I cant remember where. Does anyone have the source article?
Sontonye, I was hoping you'd answer his question about being karaite. Was also curious what you meant when you said you converted to Judaism awhile ago but aren't currently Jewish. What does that mean?
Here's a new parent bias: you imagine that your children are more normal than they are.
For example, with neither of my children did I need much in the way of burping rags. There's all kinds of things that you imagine are universal experiences but it turns out are idiosyncratic to your children.
My cousin had a child about the same time as my first child. When our children were both about two, he asked me, "How do you deal with the biting? Any tips?" And my answer was, "Uh, my daughter doesn't bite people." Unspoken -- BECAUSE I'M A GOOD PARENT.
Three years later, when my second child was two, OH, THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT. All this stuff that we thought we had figured out and nailed down with child 1 it turned out no, she was just predisposed to be easy for that.
"I wake up at 6 PM every evening, have an impossible meat burrito at about 10, cereal at 5, then go to sleep at 8 AM."
So, Scott, you're totally nocturnal!? Is this related to the twins, or do you just like it that way?
I'm thankful that Scott Alexander exists. SSC for me is a knock-down argument against credentialism: It turns out that if there's an extremely smart guy, and he thinks very hard and writes very well, most of what he has to say is better than what most of the experts had to say.
Also, as a reactionary, I'm grateful that Scott, starting with zero of the typical right-wing priors (i.e. he's not traditionally religious/conservative/racist/sexist/whatever) has been able to observe and dissect so many of the fallacies, lunacies and blind spots of orthodox woke dogma merely through the use of reason, logic and observation, and point them out in a way that mostly avoids triggering the hysterics and allowing them to dismiss him as "just a religious/racist/sexist whatever."
On the issue of prior vs. bias, isn't that a prior is my degree of belief about something and a bias the way that evidence affects my belief? If I encounter a piece of evidence that goes against my belief, but instead I strengthen my belief, that is bias.
" like when anorexia becomes more common in places it never was after the concept is introduced" I've read about this somewhere, but I cant remember where. Does anyone have the source article?
Sontonye, I was hoping you'd answer his question about being karaite. Was also curious what you meant when you said you converted to Judaism awhile ago but aren't currently Jewish. What does that mean?