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| + | * A curated community [http://lesswrong.com/promoted blog]… | ||
| + | * A community [http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/new discussion board]… | ||
| + | * A source of edited rationality [http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Rationality_materials materials]… | ||
| + | * And a promoter of regular [http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Less_Wrong_meetup_groups meetups] around the world. | ||
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In the past four decades, behavioral economists and cognitive psychologists have discovered many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases cognitive biases] human brains fall prey to when thinking and deciding. | In the past four decades, behavioral economists and cognitive psychologists have discovered many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases cognitive biases] human brains fall prey to when thinking and deciding. | ||
Revision as of 18:19, 1 July 2014
Welcome to Less Wrong
Less Wrong is…
- A curated community blog…
- A community discussion board…
- A source of edited rationality materials…
- And a promoter of regular meetups around the world.
In the past four decades, behavioral economists and cognitive psychologists have discovered many cognitive biases human brains fall prey to when thinking and deciding.
Less Wrong is an online community for people who want to apply the discovery of biases like the conjunction fallacy, the affect heuristic, and scope insensitivity in order to fix their own thinking.
Bayesian reasoning offers a way to improve on the native human reasoning style. Reasoning naively, we tend not to seek alternative explanations, and sometimes underrate the influence of prior probabilities in Bayes' theorem.
Less Wrong users aim to develop accurate predictive models of the world, and change their mind when they find evidence disconfirming those models, instead of being able to explain anything.
For more, see the Less Wrong about page.
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