How To Actually Change Your Mind
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A sequence on the ultra-high-level ultimate technique of rationality: How to actually change your mind.
Posts in this collection are scattered across widely ranging dates and times.
Contents
Subsequences
Politics is the Mind-Killer
Most important posts:
- A Fable of Science and Politics
- Politics is the Mind-Killer
- Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
- The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
- Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence
- Argument Screens Off Authority
- Hug the Query
Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
Most important posts:
- The Affect Heuristic
- The Halo Effect
- Affective Death Spirals
- Resist the Happy Death Spiral
- Uncritical Supercriticality
Seeing with Fresh Eyes
Most important posts:
- Anchoring and Adjustment
- We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think
- Hold Off On Proposing Solutions
- Do We Believe Everything We're Told?
- Cached Thoughts
- Asch's Conformity Experiment
- Lonely Dissent
- The Genetic Fallacy
Noticing Confusion
(Heavy overlap with Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions.)
- Your Strength as a Rationalist
- Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
- Hindsight Bias
- Hindsight Devalues Science
- Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Against Rationalization
- Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
- Conservation of Expected Evidence
- Update Yourself Incrementally
- One Argument Against An Army
- The Bottom Line
- What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
- Rationalization
- A Rational Argument
- Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
- Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
- Fake Justification
- Fake Optimization Criteria
- Is That Your True Rejection?
- Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies
- Anti-Epistemology
Against Doublethink
- Belief in Belief
- Singlethink
- Doublethink: Choosing to be Biased
- No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
- Belief in Self-Deception
- Moore's Paradox
- Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive
Overly Convenient Excuses
- The Proper Use of Humility
- The Third Alternative
- Privileging the Hypothesis (and its requisites, like Locating the hypothesis)
- But There's Still A Chance, Right?
Letting Go
- Feeling Rational
- The Importance of Saying "Oops"
- The Proper Use of Doubt
- You Can Face Reality
- The Meditation on Curiosity
- Something to Protect
- No One Can Exempt You From Rationality's Laws
- Leave a Line of Retreat
- Crisis of Faith
- The Ritual (short story)