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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
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Valley of Bad Rationality
191
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
71
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
81
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
65
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
142
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
42
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
179
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
36
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
27
Don't Pull a Broken Chain
johnswentworth
3y
6
119
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
38
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
25
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning?
Sailor Vulcan
4y
89
69
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
14
Post/Pre
Ouroborus
2y
1
104
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
85
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
65
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
23
Problem of Optimal False Information
Endovior
10y
113
5
STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2
6
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44
5
Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118