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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. | 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]]|[http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/ Think Like Reality]}} | |[[Eliezer Yudkowsky]]|[http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/ Think Like Reality]}} | ||
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| + | ==Blog posts== | ||
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| + | *[http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/ Think Like Reality] by [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
| − | *[[Curiosity]] | + | *[[Curiosity]], [[Surprise]] |
| − | *[[Cached thought]] | + | *[[Cached thought]], [[Curiosity stopper]] |
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*[[Absurdity heuristic]] | *[[Absurdity heuristic]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:23, 29 September 2009
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.
