Portal: Rationality
Table of Contents
Rationality techniquesπ
- Unlocking subconscious wisdom
- Internal Double Crux
- Leave a line of retreat
- Hold off on proposing solutions
- Taboo Your Words
- Hug the query / narrowness
- Original seeing / dropping cached thoughts
- Noticing
- Reversal test
- Think of your belief's most painful weaknesses
- Righting a Wrong Question
- Cognitive reframings
- Outside view in the sense of Reference class forecasting
- Outside view in other senses
Vocabulary that could be helpful
- The expression To lose the root for the tree
- Burdensome details
- Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality
- I notice that I am confused (Hallowed phrases)
Notes on battle plans
My wetwareπ
Human heuristics, biases and fallaciesπ
For failures of groups, see Human cooperation.
Mistakes you tend to keep making even if you understand them
- Belief as attire
- Planning fallacy
- cure: the "Outside view" technique
- Confirmation bias
- Positive bias (The 2-4-6 game)
- Typical-mind fallacy
- Affect heuristic (halo effect) / affective death spiral
- We believe everything we read
- Illusion of transparency (rel. cogsci concept: inferential distance)
- Availability heuristic
- Bias blind spot
- Fundamental attribution error
- Aliefs
Mistakes you tend to stop making after you understand them (at least in each example situation pointed out)
- Conjunction fallacy
- cure: the notion of "Burdensome Details"
- Mind projection fallacy
- Science as curiosity-stopper
- "But there's still a chance, right?"
- One argument against an army (rehearsing evidence)
- cure: update yourself incrementally
- Arguing "by definition"
- Examples of type error
- Applause lights
- Mysterious answers to mysterious questions
- Belief-in-belief
- 37 Ways That Words Can Be Wrong
- Categorizing has consequences
Unsorted cogsci
- Inferential distance
- Cached thoughts
- Explain/worship/ignore
- Rationalization is irrational
- Applause lights
- Cognitive science
Psychology
Other
- Things I struggle with
- The use of words
- Truths are entangled, so lies are contagious
- Evolution
Reasoningπ
General principles of minds (that would apply to alien and artificial minds as much as our own; for what's more to do with our mind-implementation on a homo sapiens brain, see rather My wetware)
Decision/game theory
- Tragedy of the commons
- Nash equilibrium
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Newcomb's Problem
- TDT/UDT/FDT
Probability theoryπ
- Meta-science
- Probability is law
- *Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
- How to convince me that 2 + 2 = 3
- Occam's Razor not some fuzzy rule of thumb
- Non-Occam
- #statistics
Value/moral theory
- Metaethics
- EY's Fun Theory
Anthropic reasoning
- Quantum Risk-Taking
- Book: Anthropic Bias
The universe
- Evolution (again)
- Anthropic reasoning (again)
- Quantum physics
- Cosmology
My gameboardπ
- Discredited famous studies
- Bullshit quotient
- S-risks
- Geopolitics
- What you can't say
- What is going on?
- What's the ongoing research?
- What's our civilization adequate at solving?
- Timeline of events
- Future
Interpersonalπ
- Communication cultures
- How to listen
- How to make good conversation when sure you have the correct answer
- Simulacrum levels
- Do not appear to ignore
- How to always have interesting conversations
- Culture of groups
Human cooperationπ
- Epistemic status
- Pinch hitter syndrome
- Tragedy of the commons
- Prediction market
- Economics in general
- Research debt
- Moloch β inadequate equilibria, multipolar traps
What links here
- 2023-10-15
- 2023-04-21
- The meaning of "rationality"
- Teaching as learning
- Portals
- Non-deathist Stoicism
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