# Concerns

Originally published: 2016-07-10
Canonical URL: /2016/Jul/concerns/

"I'm concerned about the [socially-undesirable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias) implications of a model described by this causal graph."

_(studying it)_ "Have you considered that these arrows might point in the socially-desirable direction instead?"

_(with exasperation, as if realizing he is doomed to have this conversation dozens of times with everyone who is not a Dark Rationalist corrupted by cruel apprehension of patterns that innocents were not meant to see)_ "Yes, I have considered that! I consider it extremely implausible!"