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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
39
The biological function of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of people we cannot deceive
chaosmage
1mo
3
3
Wormy the Worm
River Lewis
7mo
23
86
Ego syntonic thoughts and values
Scott Alexander
11y
55
61
Fake Selfishness
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
71
198
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
11y
306
59
The Black Team - A Parable of Group Effectiveness
JGWeissman
11y
21
29
Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition
jbkjr
1y
4
10
Two kinds of Agency
Elo
4y
9
50
Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone
lukeprog
11y
134
56
Nobody does the thing that they are supposedly doing
Kaj_Sotala
5y
6
7
Using false but instrumentally rational beliefs for your career?
rockthecasbah
2y
29
75
The Actionable Version of "Keep Your Identity Small"
Hazard
3y
14
26
Motivators: Altruistic Actions for Non-Altruistic Reasons
Ruby
8y
20
70
Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
169
51
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
13y
606
7
Immodesty, Deceit and Motivated Reasoning
whpearson
5y
0
33
Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs's hypocritical stance towards death
Synaptic
11y
78
76
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
33
3
"Self-pretending" is not as useful as we think
pwno
13y
15
24
[Link] Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study
10y
8
33
Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
9
2
Would You Slap Your Father? Article Linkage and Discussion
Annoyance
13y
11
129
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
29
56
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Scott Alexander
13y
32
50
Book Review: The Elephant in the Brain
Zvi
4y
9
-1
Lie to me?
pwno
13y
32
158
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176