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8 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 March 2009 12:04PM

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Comment author: anonym 02 March 2009 12:12:37AM 2 points [-]

A friendly, concise overview of some of the most important techniques for improving thought, such as identifying cached thoughts and tabooing your words, holding off on proposing solutions, recognizing fake justification, leaving a line of retreat, righting wrong questions, identifying true sources of disagreement, etc.

This presupposes some motivating discussion of cognitive biases and why it is so unnatural to think rationally.