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Could more people please share data on how one of the above techniques, or some other technique for reducing consistency pressures, has actually helped their rationality? Or how such a technique has harmed their rationality, or has just been a waste of time? The techniques list is just a list of guesses, and while I'm planning on using more of them than I have been using... it would be nice to have even anecdotal data on what helps and doesn't help.
For example, many of you write anonymously; what effects do you notice from doing so?
Or what thoughts do you have regarding Michael Vassar's suggestion to practice lying?
I use 2a when socializing with multiple polarized ideological camps, e.g. libertarians and social democrats. I can criticize particular fallacies and rationality errors of the other camp in terms of failure to conform to general principles, and when I do this I think of the ways in which my current interlocutors' camp also abuses those principles. I find that doing this helps me keep my reactions more level than if I mention errors in terms of idiosyncratic problems (e.g. specific interest groups associated with only one faction).