Re:Ask HN: Women who've applied to YC?
by philwelch on Monday October 25, 2010 @08:10AM
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You seem to be implicitly assuming that everyone can resist temptation through sheer force of will. Even if you're that way, a lot of people aren't; they have to carefully engineer temptation out of their lives. (There's a known cognitive bias for assuming everyone else is psychologically like yourself, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called right now.)
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Why are you determined to identify a subtext in my remarks? First monogamy, now self-denial - you're disputing ideas which I don't hold. There are a good many people in open or group relationships who are happy, stable and committed to each other as they are, rather than on a conditional basis. People generally don't carefully engineer temptation out of their lives by signalling in such detail.
The belief that others' cognitive processes are essentially similar to one's own is called projection bias, BTW.
Why are you determined to identify a subtext in my remarks?
I'm interpreting your comments as straightforwardly as I can.
In the general case, though, it's a dick move to criticize the merits of a complete stranger's marriage. The exact substance of your criticism is a comparatively minor issue.