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Motivations
Identity
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Self-Deception
Motivated Reasoning
Hypocrisy
Sunk-Cost Fallacy
Defensibility
Just World Hypothesis
246
Roles are Martial Arts for Agency
Eneasz
8y
59
208
Learned Blankness
AnnaSalamon
11y
188
191
The curse of identity
Kaj_Sotala
11y
306
142
Use Your Identity Carefully
Ben_LandauTaylor
9y
33
131
Strategic choice of identity
Vika
8y
58
105
Ego syntonic thoughts and values
Scott Alexander
11y
55
93
How To Raise Others’ Aspirations in 17 Easy Steps
chanamessinger
11mo
13
93
To what degree do we have goals?
Scott Alexander
11y
52
87
Three more ways identity can be a curse
gothgirl420666
9y
105
86
"Win First" vs "Chill First"
lionhearted
2y
19
76
Whining-Based Communities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
99
74
Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics
sarahconstantin
4y
27
72
The Black Team - A Parable of Group Effectiveness
JGWeissman
11y
21
69
Nobody does the thing that they are supposedly doing
Kaj_Sotala
5y
6
159
The Bias You Didn't Expect
Psychohistorian
11y
92
152
Integrity and accountability are core parts of rationality
habryka
3y
66
150
The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
4y
29
139
Belief in Belief
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
176
119
Lifeism in the midst of death
TobyBartels
10y
19
117
Simultaneously Right and Wrong
Scott Alexander
13y
63
106
Your Rationality is My Business
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
28
96
No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
89
92
Missing the Trees for the Forest
Scott Alexander
13y
159
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Be comfortable with hypocrisy
The_Duck
8y
79
75
Trivers on Self-Deception
Scott Alexander
11y
25
72
Beliefs as emotional strategies
Kaj_Sotala
1y
4
67
Strategic ignorance and plausible deniability
Kaj_Sotala
11y
59
65
'X is not about Y' is not about psychology
abramdemski
5y
12