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Pitfalls of Rationality
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
Epistemic Hygiene
17 posts
Rationalization
254
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
225
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
177
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
162
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
160
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
142
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
133
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
125
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
114
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
102
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
101
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
95
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
76
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
76
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
156
Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
100
139
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
15
103
One Argument Against An Army
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
36
101
Fake Justification
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
58
90
Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
29
79
A Rational Argument
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
41
59
"But It Doesn't Matter"
Zack_M_Davis
3y
16
39
If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding
Davis_Kingsley
4y
15
31
Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
26
Why a New Rationalization Sequence?
dspeyer
2y
8
24
Red Flags for Rationalization
dspeyer
2y
6
14
Using Expert Disagreement
dspeyer
2y
1
13
Testing for Rationalization
dspeyer
2y
0
12
Toxic Truth
MichaelHoward
13y
31