(December 25, 2013 at 8:04 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: No, I hold on to the conclusion, knowing it may be wrong, because it helped me when rationality failed me.
So, if holding on to biased conclusions helped you more than rationality, then why did you create an entire thread as if confirmation bias is a bad thing to have?
If you think that confirmation bias helps you, then you shouldn't care if other people have a lot of confirmation bias as well because you don't consider your own confirmation bias to be a bad thing at all. You hold on to confirmation bias because it helps you. And yet you made a thread as if confirmation bias is something that everyone should try to eliminate from their minds, as if it's a bad thing to have. That is the reason I considered your OP to be disingenuous and hypocritical the moment I saw it.
As for "knowing it may be wrong" ... well, obviously. I know that my beliefs "may be wrong" also. But you go much further than that:
(November 18, 2013 at 9:29 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: I mask the truth with a comforting lie (or perhaps model is a better word) ... and I spend all day looking forward to going home.
(November 18, 2013 at 9:29 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: But at the end of the day I don't really want to examine those truths too closely.
(December 12, 2013 at 4:21 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Ignorance is bliss!
That is not just knowing that you "may be wrong." Rather, that is you being deliberately ignorant.
Sorry, not just deliberately ignorant ... but also blissfully ignorant.
