Motivated Skepticism

• Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
• Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
• Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
• The Skeptic's Trilemma by Yvain
• Undiscriminating Skepticism

External Links

• From Skepticism to Technical Rationality by lukeprog

• Motivated cognition
• Least convenient possible world
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Color politics, Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops
• Dangerous knowledge

Motivated skepticism is the mistake of deliberately applying more skepticism to claims that you don't like (or intuitively disbelieve), than to claims that you do like. Because emotional disposition towards a claim isn't generally evidence about its truth, including it in the process of arriving at a belief means holding the belief partly for reasons other than because it's true.

• Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
• Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
• Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation

• Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points by Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Least convenient possible world
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Color politics, Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops
• Dangerous knowledge

• Dangerous knowledgeLeast convenient possible world
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops
• Dangerous knowledge

Motivated skepticism is the mistake of deliberately applying more skepticism to claims that you don't like,like (or intuitively disbelieve), than to claims that you do like. Because emotional disposition towards a claim isn't generally evidence about its truth, including it in the process of arriving at a belief means holding the belief partly for reasons other than because it's true.

• Dangerous knowledge
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops
• Affective death spiral

• Dangerous knowledge
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops
• Affective death spiral

• Dangerous knowledge
• Filtered evidence, Conservation of expected evidence
• Motivated cognition
• Positive bias
• Rationalization, Oops