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Re:Trapped priors as a basic problem of rationality by heavyset_go on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:50PM (#26449875)
> The “just-so” style that the author uses to explain psychological phenomena appeals to the readers’ cognitive biases and avoids confronting the reader with the more rigorous, mechanistic (perhaps evidence-based?) explanations that the same author proposes as a way to combat said cognitive biases. This strikes me as mildly ironic.

This is endemic to the rationalist community. It's actually quite humorous once you begin to notice it.

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