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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
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Valley of Bad Rationality
254
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
225
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
162
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
102
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
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
54
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
53
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
49
No Really, Why Aren't Rationalists Winning?
Sailor Vulcan
4y
89
44
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
40
The Costs of Rationality
RobinHanson
13y
81
39
Stoicism: Cautionary Advice
VivaLaPanda
4y
16
39
Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"
alexvermeer
10y
27
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
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44
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STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2
1
Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118