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Comment author: hyporational 30 January 2014 01:27:52AM *  1 point [-]

This is a fun exercise. The list could be a lot longer than I originally expected.

  • belief is about evidence
  • 0 and 1 are not probabilities
  • Occam's razor
  • strawman and steelman
  • privileging the hypothesis
  • tabooing
  • instrumental-terminal distinction of values
  • don't pull probabilities out of your posterior
  • introspection is often wrong
  • intuitions are often wrong
  • general concept of heuristics and biases
  • confirmation and disconfirmation bias
  • halo effect
  • knowing about biases doesn't unbias you
  • denotations and connotations
  • many more
Comment author: bramflakes 30 January 2014 03:32:33PM 2 points [-]

"not technically lying" is de facto lying

Comment author: hyporational 30 January 2014 04:10:49PM 0 points [-]

This might be useful for staying honest to yourself and perhaps your allies, but it's also useful to keep in mind that most people give different kinds of lies different degrees of moral weight.

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 January 2014 01:38:54PM 1 point [-]

Nice list, even a bit that's basic enough that I can put it into an Anki deck about teaching rationality (a long term project of mine but at the moment I doesn't have enough cards for release).

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