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13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: Yvain 28 February 2009 04:09:34PM 11 points [-]

The most important thing I learned from Overcoming Bias was to stop viewing the human mind as a blank slate, ideally a blank slate, an approximation to a blank slate, or anything with properties even slightly resembling blankness or slateness. The rest is just commentary - admittedly very, very good commentary.

The posts I associate with this are everything on evolutionary psychology such as Godshatter (second most important thing I learned: study evolutionary psychology!), the free will series, the "ghost in the machine" and "ideal philosopher of perfect emptiness" series, and the Mind Projection Fallacy.