{"id":63,"date":"2017-05-26T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/?p=63"},"modified":"2017-05-26T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T00:45:09","slug":"the-slider-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/the-slider-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slider Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by this thing John Beshir said about increasing collectivism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall I kind of feel like this might be kind of cargo culting; looking at surface behaviours and aping them in hopes the collectivism planes will start landing with their cargo. A simplistic &#8220;collectivist vs individualist&#8221; slider and pushing it left by doing more &#8220;collectivist&#8221; things probably won&#8217;t work, I think. We should have some idea for how the particular things we were doing were going to be helpful, even if we should look into collectivist-associated ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Here are some other &#8220;sliders&#8221;:<\/li>\n<li>Writing emails fast vs writing them carefully.<\/li>\n<li>Writing code cleanly vs quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Taking correct ideas seriously vs resistance to takeover by misaligned memes.<\/li>\n<li>Less false positives vs less false negatives in anything.<\/li>\n<li>Perfectionism vs pragmatism.<\/li>\n<li>Not wasting time vs not wasting money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In each of these spaces, you have not one but many choices to adjust which combine to give you an amount of each of two values.<\/p>\n<p>Not every choice is a tradeoff. Some are pareto wins. Not every pareto win is well-known. Some choices which are tradeoffs at different exchange rates can be paired off into pareto improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Also: if the two things-to-value are A and B, and even if you are a real heavy A-fan, and your utility function is .9A + .1B, then the B-fans are a good place to look for tradeoffs of 1 of A for 20 of B.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re a B-fan and decide, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been favoring B too much, I need more A&#8221;, don&#8217;t throw away all the work you did to find that 1 of A for 20 of B tradeoff.<\/p>\n<p>For example: if you decide that you are favoring organization too much and need to favor more having-free-time-by-not-maintaining-order-you-won&#8217;t-use, maybe don&#8217;t stop using a calendar. Even if all the productive disorganized people are not using calendars. Even if they all think that not using a calendar is a great idea, and think you are still a neat-freak for using one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s often not like the dark side, where as soon as you set your feet on that path and say to yourself, &#8220;actually, self-denial and restraint are bad things&#8221;, put on some red-and-yellow contact lenses and black robes, you are as good at getting the new goals as you were at the old ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adjust my tradeoffs so I get less false positives and more false negatives&#8221; and similar moves are dangerous because they consider a cost to be a reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by this thing John Beshir said about increasing collectivism: Overall I kind of feel like this might be kind of cargo culting; looking at surface behaviours and aping them in hopes the collectivism planes will start landing with their cargo. A simplistic &#8220;collectivist vs individualist&#8221; slider and pushing it left by doing more &#8220;collectivist&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/the-slider-fallacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Slider Fallacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinceriously.fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}