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Pitfalls of Rationality
Information Hazards
Conflict vs Mistake
Valley of Bad Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
Epistemic Hygiene
17 posts
Rationalization
191
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
179
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
162
Conflict vs. mistake in non-zero-sum games
Nisan
2y
40
148
Staying Split: Sabatini and Social Justice
Duncan_Sabien
6mo
28
142
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
131
Memetic Hazards in Videogames
jimrandomh
12y
164
129
Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information
Davis_Kingsley
4y
46
119
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
4mo
6
119
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
104
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
89
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
2y
95
85
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
81
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
79
Bioinfohazards
Spiracular
3y
16
133
The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
15
124
Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
100
89
Fake Justification
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
58
87
One Argument Against An Army
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
36
80
A Rational Argument
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
41
64
Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
29
57
"But It Doesn't Matter"
Zack_M_Davis
3y
16
46
If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding
Davis_Kingsley
4y
15
35
Third Alternatives for Afterlife-ism
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
20
30
Why a New Rationalization Sequence?
dspeyer
2y
8
25
Red Flags for Rationalization
dspeyer
2y
6
19
Testing for Rationalization
dspeyer
2y
0
16
Toxic Truth
MichaelHoward
13y
31
13
Using Expert Disagreement
dspeyer
2y
1