Pitfalls of Human Cognition

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1 Jul 2022 21:54 UTC

Part 2 of 6 from the Sequence Highlights.

A major theme of the Sequences is the ways in which human reasoning goes astray. This sample of essays describes a number of failure modes and invokes us to do better.

The Bot­tom Line

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Sep 2007 17:47 UTC
179 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Rationalization

Eliezer Yudkowsky30 Sep 2007 19:29 UTC
93 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

You Can Face Reality

Eliezer Yudkowsky9 Aug 2007 1:46 UTC
150 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Is That Your True Re­jec­tion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Dec 2008 14:26 UTC
145 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Oct 2007 1:59 UTC
157 points
212 comments4 min readLW link

Belief as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Aug 2007 17:13 UTC
124 points
105 comments2 min readLW link

Cached Thoughts

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Oct 2007 23:46 UTC
188 points
93 comments3 min readLW link

The Fal­lacy of Gray

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jan 2008 6:24 UTC
274 points
81 comments5 min readLW link

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
147 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Bias: Look Into the Dark

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Aug 2007 3:55 UTC
130 points
58 comments3 min readLW link

Know­ing About Bi­ases Can Hurt People

Eliezer Yudkowsky4 Apr 2007 18:01 UTC
198 points
82 comments2 min readLW link

Poli­tics is the Mind-Killer

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 Feb 2007 21:23 UTC
266 points
240 comments2 min readLW link