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Pitfalls of Rationality
Explicit Reasoning
Repository
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Valley of Bad Rationality
191
The Treacherous Path to Rationality
Jacob Falkovich
2y
116
179
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
83
142
Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instrumental Rationality
patrissimo
12y
261
119
Making your explicit reasoning trustworthy
AnnaSalamon
12y
95
81
Adding Up To Normality
orthonormal
2y
22
71
Worst Commonsense Concepts?
abramdemski
1y
32
69
"Epiphany addiction"
cousin_it
10y
94
65
My experience with the "rationalist uncanny valley"
Thomas Kwa
2y
18
58
Being Half-Rational About Pascal's Wager is Even Worse
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
166
56
I'm scared.
Mass_Driver
12y
81
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Summary of "The Straw Vulcan"
alexvermeer
10y
27
42
Simplicio and Sophisticus
Zvi
4y
1
38
Defense against discourse
Benquo
5y
15
37
Do we have it too easy?
Klao
11y
44
104
"No evidence" as a Valley of Bad Rationality
Adam Zerner
2y
21
85
Incremental Progress and the Valley
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
114
65
On the Openness personality trait & 'rationality'
gwern
11y
95
23
Problem of Optimal False Information
Endovior
10y
113
6
Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist
Gleb_Tsipursky
7y
44
5
STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
3y
2
5
Why Don't Rationalists Win?
Adam Zerner
7y
118