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Pitfalls of Human Cognition

Jul 01, 2022 by Ruby

Part 2 of 6 from the Sequence Highlights.

A major theme of the Sequences is the ways in which human reasoning goes astray. This sample of essays describes a number of failure modes and invokes us to do better.

153The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
14
79Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
28
124You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
36
132Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
100
132Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
212
116Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
104
164Cached Thoughts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
90
254The Fallacy of Gray
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
79
132Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
88
118Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
57
188Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
82
239Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
16y
239