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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
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Valley of Bad Rationality
225
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
76
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
76
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
68
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
254
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
49
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning?
Sailor Vulcan
4y
89
162
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
39
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
24
Don't Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
3y
6
33
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
102
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
16
Post/Pre
Ouroborus
2y
1
27
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
54
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
101
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
95
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
46
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
20
Problem of Optimal False Information
Endovior
10y
113
5
STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2
5
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44
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Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118