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Incredulity

Edited by Ruby, Vladimir_Nesov, PeerInfinity last updated 6th Oct 2020

Spending emotional energy on incredulity wastes time you could be using to update. It repeatedly throws you back into the frame of the old, wrong viewpoint. It feeds your sense of righteous indignation at reality daring to contradict you.

—Eliezer Yudkowsky, Think Like Reality

Blog posts

  • Think Like Reality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

See also

  • Curiosity, Surprise
  • Cached thought, Curiosity stopper
  • Absurdity heuristic
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