Predictably Wrong

This, the first book of “Rationality: AI to Zombies” (also known as “The Sequences”), begins with cognitive bias. The rest of the book won’t stick to just this topic; bad habits and bad ideas matter, even when they arise from our minds’ contents as opposed to our minds’ structure.

It is cognitive bias, however, that provides the clearest and most direct glimpse into the stuff of our psychology, into the shape of our heuristics and the logic of our limitations. It is with bias that we will begin.

Preface

Bi­ases: An Introduction

Scope Insensitivity

The Mar­tial Art of Rationality

Availability

What’s a Bias?

Bur­den­some Details

What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Plan­ning Fallacy

Why Truth?

Feel­ing Rational

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws