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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
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Valley of Bad Rationality
157
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
66
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
86
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
62
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
51
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
136
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
30
Don't Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
3y
6
49
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
122
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
33
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
85
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
62
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
104
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
68
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
107
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
84
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
75
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
26
Problem of Optimal False Information
Endovior
10y
113
5
STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2
9
Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118
7
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44