Politics Is The Mind-Killer

A sequence on the various ways that politics damages our sanity - including, of course, making it harder to change our minds on political issues.

This page is about Eliezer Yudkowsky's sequence. For ongoing discussion of these issues at LW Wiki, see Mind-killer and Color politics.

Blog posts

• A Fable of Science and Politics
• Politics is the Mind-Killer
• Policy Debates Should Not Appear One-Sided
• The Scales of Justice, the Notebook of Rationality
• Correspondence Bias
• Are Your Enemies Innately Evil?
• The Robbers Cave Experiment
• Reversed Stupidity is Not Intelligence
  • Argument Screens Off Authority
  • Hug the Query
• Rationality and the English Language
• Politics and Awful Art (but first read: The Litany Against Gurus)
• False Laughter
• Human Evil and Muddled Thinking

See also

Closely related to Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor, particularly:

• Affective Death Spirals
• Uncritical Supercriticality
• Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
• When None Dare Urge Restraint
• The Two-Party Swindle