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Comment author: Jack 20 January 2011 04:38:43PM 0 points [-]

Great post.

  1. Exposing yourself to effective, emotionally manipulative arguments for things you're currently confident are false (possibly religious apologetics)

How about exposing yourself to effective, emotionally manipulative arguments for things you're currently confident are true. This seems equally dangerous.

Currently I only really do 1 and 11. Though mostly 1 works by making my procrastination more valuable- like spending it on Less Wrong instead of TVTropes or political blogs. I still watch way too much TV.

I have a really nasty habit of harmful self-censorship, like not reading bills because they'll make me unhappy/uncomfortable. As you can imagine this is a really bad form of irrationality so I'm weary of finding excuses to self-censor. But I wonder if paying more attention to what information I allowed myself to consume would help me prevent this.