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Costs of Rationality

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Becoming more epistemically rational can only guarantee one thing: what you believe will include more of the truth. Knowing that truth might help you achieve your goals, or cause you to become a pariah. Be sure that you really want to know the truth before you commit to finding it; otherwise, you may flinch from it.

See also

  • Value of Rationality
  • Valley of bad rationality
  • Debiasing, Dangerous knowledge
  • Bounded rationality
  • Rationality, Truth

Blog posts

  • Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)
  • The Costs of Rationality by Robin Hanson
  • Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction
  • How Much Thought by jimrandomh
  • Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted by Alicorn
  • Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)