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Yes you’re describing confirmation bias.


No, he describes learning. You know, adjusting up the probability of X the more you see X?


All I see in every thread is this meta complaint about seeing this genre of comments too often. I find that pretty annoying.

And yet, I don’t want to say my subjective experience is objective truth. Maybe I notice and remember the comments that annoy me? You see how that works?


The only way to even approach objective truth is to communicate your subjective experience and have others tell you whether their subjective experience corresponds to yours or not.


Great, then I did exactly as you suggest.


It seems that "bias" and "learning" are two sides of the same coin :)




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