Blueberry comments on Lists of cognitive biases, common misconceptions, and fallacies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 24 January 2010 03:57:00AM 4 points [-]

It's great to get in the habit of knowing these biases and looking for them.

One important point is to beware of the meta-bias (actually an instance of confirmation bias): it's all too easy to use biases to knock down an argument that you're already against, and ignore the biases in your own reasoning.