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Comment author: jimrandomh 13 March 2011 04:38:06AM 3 points [-]

Harvested from Five-minute rationality techniques:

If you suspect something is factually true, don't be afraid to believe it. It can't hurt you. -- SarahC

Gibberish is toxic; if you bend your mind to make sense of it, your whole mind warps slightly. -- Myself

Learning one was wrong (and updating) is a good thing. One should be more interested in obtaining information than winning debates. -- Violet

You shouldn't just trust whatever your thoughts say; have your second thoughts monitoring them. And have your third thoughts monitor that. -- luminosity (edited slightly for length)

Comment author: Dorikka 13 March 2011 06:29:44AM 1 point [-]

You shouldn't just trust whatever your thoughts say; have your second thoughts monitoring them. And have your third thoughts monitor that.

I don't think that this is very useful. I actually did this for a day or so, but the amount of mental effort that it took to do it was definitely not worth it. I would probably limit it to one level of monitoring, considering that you don't have a huge amount of computing power to work with.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 13 March 2011 07:44:23PM 1 point [-]

I find myself doing this with any spare computing power I have. Is it worth the effort to stop?

Comment author: Alexandros 13 March 2011 08:13:47AM 1 point [-]

During the London meetup we also mentioned that this self-questioning may be related to procrastination, and by self-observation I tend to put more weight on it as an explanation.

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