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> Rationalism should not be confused with rationality, nor with rationalization. -Wikipedia article on rationalism I frequently see people using rationalism in place of rationality. Usually other commenters understand them, however I believe that using the word rationality is superior. The Less Wrong tag line is "A community blog devoted...

Discussion article for the meetup : Psycology of memorization, Thiel Fellow James Koppel, and games WHEN: 24 November 2012 02:30:00PM (-0600) WHERE: St.Louis Mo, Kaldi's Coffee Clayton branch I'm planing to do a presentation with optional exercises on the psychology of memorization with an emphasis on learning names. I plan...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/is-psychology-about-to-come-undone/29045 The plan is to replicate or fail to replicate all 2008 articles from three major Psychology journals. ETA: http://openscienceframework.org/ is the homepage of the group behind this. It's still in Beta, but will eventually include some nifty looking science toolkits in addition to the reproducibility project.

I just ran across an interesting working paper by P.J. Healy and D.A. Moore, providing a potenial explanation for several forms of overconfidence. The abstract: > We study three distinct measures of overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) overprecision in...

http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/02/06/rationality-training-call-for-a-global-approach/ Dr.Ziesche calls for more globally accessible rationality training. He seems supportive of existing efforts, especially us, but thinks it would be nice if rationality training was easily accessible to people other than educated westerners.

What attributes make a task useful for rationality verification? After thinking it over I believe I have identified three main components. The first is that the task should be as grounded in the real world as is possible. The second is that the task should be involve a wide variety...