Portal: Rationality
Table of Contents
Rationality techniques🔗
- 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 wetware🔗
Human heuristics, biases and fallacies🔗
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
Reasoning🔗
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 theory🔗
- 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 gameboard🔗
- 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
Interpersonal🔗
- 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 cooperation🔗
- Epistemic status
- Pinch hitter syndrome
- Tragedy of the commons
- Prediction market
- Economics in general
- Research debt
- Moloch — 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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