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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
7 posts
Valley of Bad Rationality
157
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
136
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
122
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
104
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
85
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
68
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
66
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
62
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
62
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
59
Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"
alexvermeer
10y
27
51
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
49
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
47
Do we have it too easy?
Klao
11y
44
107
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
84
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
75
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
26
Problem of Optimal False Information
Endovior
10y
113
9
Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118
7
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44
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STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2