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Self-Deception
Defensibility
Just World Hypothesis
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Motivated Reasoning
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
177
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176
148
Your Rationality is My Business
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
28
128
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
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112
Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
169
108
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
29
103
The Bias You Didn't Expect
Psychohistorian
11y
92
51
What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Scott Alexander
13y
32
47
Trivers on Self-Deception
Scott Alexander
11y
25
44
Absolute denial for atheists
taw
13y
606
42
Rationality Is Not Systematized Winning
namespace
4y
20
36
Algorithmic Intent: A Hansonian Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle
Zack_M_Davis
2y
17
15
Negotiating With Yourself
orthonormal
2y
0
10
The Just World Hypothesis
michael_vassar2
5y
10
7
Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
Benquo
5y
14
144
Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
3y
66
99
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
Scott Alexander
13y
63
92
The Proper Use of Doubt
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
33
92
Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
2y
48
87
Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
8
76
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Scott Alexander
13y
159
75
Lifeism in the midst of death
TobyBartels
10y
19
58
Beliefs as emotional strategies
Kaj_Sotala
1y
4
56
Cynical About Cynicism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
27
53
Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
11y
59
30
Forcing yourself to keep your identity small is self-harm
Gordon Seidoh Worley
1y
9
28
Wrongology 101
sarahconstantin
4y
5
26
Sunk Costs Fallacy Fallacy
10y
28
22
Overly convenient clusters, or: Beware sour grapes
KnaveOfAllTrades
8y
20