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Self-Deception
Defensibility
Just World Hypothesis
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Motivated Reasoning
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
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Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
169
44
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
13y
606
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"Self-pretending" is not as useful as we think
pwno
13y
15
108
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
29
51
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Scott Alexander
13y
32
0
Lie to me?
pwno
13y
32
177
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176
47
Trivers on Self-Deception
Scott Alexander
11y
25
10
The Just World Hypothesis
michael_vassar2
5y
10
42
Rationality Is Not Systematized Winning
namespace
4y
20
103
The Bias You Didn't Expect
Psychohistorian
11y
92
148
Your Rationality is My Business
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
28
128
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
89
7
Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
Benquo
5y
14
4
Immodesty, Deceit and Motivated Reasoning
whpearson
5y
0
92
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
33
14
[Link] Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
10y
8
30
Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
9
4
Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion
Annoyance
13y
11
22
Overly convenient clusters, or: Beware sour grapes
KnaveOfAllTrades
8y
20
87
Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
8
76
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Scott Alexander
13y
159
99
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
Scott Alexander
13y
63
75
Lifeism in the midst of death
TobyBartels
10y
19
21
Is Sunk Cost Fallacy a Fallacy?
gwern
10y
81
56
Cynical About Cynicism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
27
13
LINK: Study demonstrates politically motivated innumeracy
Alejandro1
9y
3
26
Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy
10y
28