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===How else can I make a dedicated effort to think more rationally?=== ...ed on how much you agree or disagree with someone's conclusions. A better heuristic is to vote based on how much a comment or post improves the accuracy of you

| [http://lesswrong.com/lw/6jw/time_and_effort_discounting/ Time and Effort Discounting] ...udo_or_using_the_availability/ Rationalist Judo, or Using the Availability Heuristic to Win]

...e, and emotional; it operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. System 2 is slower, more deliberative, a ...System 1 runs automatically and System 2 is normally in a comfortable low-effort mode, in which only a fraction of its capacity is engaged. System 1 continu

The glossary is a community effort, and you're welcome to improve on the entries here, or add new ones. See th * '''affect heuristic'''. People's general tendency to reason based on things' felt goodness or b

#[http://lesswrong.com/lw/lg/the_affect_heuristic/ The Affect Heuristic] ...://lesswrong.com/lw/uo/make_an_extraordinary_effort/ Make an Extraordinary Effort]

*[http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Absurdity_heuristic Absurdity heuristic] - is a mental shortcut where highly untypical situations are classified as *[http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Affect_heuristic Affect heuristic] - a mental shortcut that makes use of current [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

a life worth living, which requires a correspondingly strong effort of ...sponsiveness. If an issue isn't worth ''personally fixing by however much effort it takes'', it's not worth a refusal to contribute.

...esn't fit what we really would have expected. We need to make a conscious effort to be shocked enough. ...ie simply because someone else knows the answer (which is a rather strange heuristic anyway): You should only be satisfied with a predictive model, and how a gi