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Motivations
Identity
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Self-Deception
Motivated Reasoning
Hypocrisy
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
Defensibility
Just World Hypothesis
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I learn better when I frame learning as Vengeance for losses incurred through ignorance, and you might too
chaosmage
2mo
7
35
The biological function of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of people we cannot deceive
chaosmage
1mo
3
2
Wormy the Worm
River Lewis
7mo
23
105
Ego syntonic thoughts and values
Scott Alexander
11y
55
66
Fake Selfishness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
71
191
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
11y
306
72
The Black Team - A Parable of Group Effectiveness
JGWeissman
11y
21
30
Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition
jbkjr
1y
4
12
Two kinds of Agency
Elo
4y
9
57
Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone
lukeprog
11y
134
69
Nobody does the thing that they are supposedly doing
Kaj_Sotala
5y
6
8
Using false but instrumentally rational beliefs for your career?
rockthecasbah
2y
29
67
The Actionable Version of "Keep Your Identity Small"
Hazard
3y
14
31
Motivators: Altruistic Actions for Non-Altruistic Reasons
Ruby
8y
20
28
Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
169
58
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
13y
606
10
Immodesty, Deceit and Motivated Reasoning
whpearson
5y
0
40
Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death
Synaptic
11y
78
60
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
33
5
"Self-pretending" is not as useful as we think
pwno
13y
15
34
[Link] Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
10y
8
36
Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
9
0
Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion
Annoyance
13y
11
150
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
29
61
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Scott Alexander
13y
32
57
Book Review: The Elephant in the Brain
Zvi
4y
9
-2
Lie to me?
pwno
13y
32
139
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176