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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
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The biological function of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of people we cannot deceive
chaosmage
1mo
3
115
How To Raise Others’ Aspirations in 17 Easy Steps
chanamessinger
11mo
13
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"Win First" vs "Chill First"
lionhearted
2y
19
28
Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition
jbkjr
1y
4
17
My Transhuman Dream
Johannes C. Mayer
8mo
0
83
The Actionable Version of "Keep Your Identity Small"
Hazard
3y
14
226
Roles are Martial Arts for Agency
Eneasz
8y
59
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From self to craving (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
2y
21
80
Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics
sarahconstantin
4y
27
234
Learned Blankness
AnnaSalamon
11y
188
205
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
11y
306
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Motivation: You Have to Win in the Moment
Ruby
3y
19
44
Self-consciousness wants to make everything about itself
jessicata
3y
68
144
Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
3y
66
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Beliefs as emotional strategies
Kaj_Sotala
1y
4
92
Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
2y
48
37
The case for hypocrisy
Aaron Bergman
1y
12
108
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
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Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
9
36
Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
Zack_M_Davis
2y
17
42
Rationality Is Not Systematized Winning
namespace
4y
20
177
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176
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Explaining why false ideas spread is more fun than why true ones do
Matthew Barnett
3y
6
43
Book Review: The Elephant in the Brain
Zvi
4y
9
41
'X is not about Y' is not about psychology
abramdemski
5y
12
128
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
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Your Rationality is My Business
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
28