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Highlights from the Sequences

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.

216The Bottom Line
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
17
135Rationalization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
29
205You Can Face Reality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
41
174Is That Your True Rejection?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
100
197Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
214
157Belief as Attire
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
106
239Cached Thoughts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
94
311The Fallacy of Gray
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
82
182Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
91
180Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Eliezer Yudkowsky
18y
59
235Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19y
82
318Politics is the Mind-Killer
Eliezer Yudkowsky
19y
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