Open thread, January 25- February 1

NancyLebovitz

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

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

"not technically lying" is de facto lying

2ChristianKl12y

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).