Comment by Matt4 on Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Horgan · 2008-06-08T09:01:48.000Z · LW · GW

"That's not how I experience my epiphanies, it's just sort of 'Oh, that's obviously correct.'"

I found that comment really resonated with me, but having been exposed to experimental psychology (which by a roundabout route is what led me to this blog in the first place), I've always struggled with how to distinguish that response from confirmation bias. It seems to me that I have in fact radically changed my opinions on certain issues on the basis of convincing evidence (convincingly argued), but that could just as well be revisionist memories.