46. The Proper Use of Humility
48. Lotteries: A Waste of Hope
50. But There's Still A Chance, Right?
53. How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3
The previous book in the series is Map and Territory, and the next book is The Machine in the Ghost.
67. Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
68. Update Yourself Incrementally
69. One Argument Against An Army
70. The Bottom Line
71. What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
72. Rationalization
74. Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points
75. Motivated Stopping and Motivated Continuation
77. Is That Your True Rejection?
78. Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies
79. Of Lies and Black Swan Blowups
81. Singlethink
82. Doublethink: Choosing to be Biased
83. No, Really, I've Deceived Myself
85. Moore's Paradox
86. Don't Believe You'll Self-Deceive
121. The Importance of Saying "Oops"
122. The Crackpot Offer
125. You Can Face Reality
129. Crisis of Faith
130. The Ritual (short story)
Most important posts:
90. Cached Thoughts
92. Original Seeing
94. The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
100. The Affect Heuristic
101. Evaluability and Cheap Holiday Shopping
102. Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism
103. The Halo Effect
104. Superhero Bias
105. Mere Messiahs
107. Resist the Happy Death Spiral
108. Uncritical Supercriticality
109. Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs
110. When None Dare Urge Restraint
111. The Robbers Cave Experiment
112. Every Cause Wants to be a Cult
114. Guardians of the Gene Pool
116. Two Cult Koans
(Heavy overlap with120. Mysterious Answers to Mysterious QuestionsCultish Countercultishness.)
A How to Actually Change Your Mind is the second book contained in the ebook sequenceRationality: From AI to Zombies on, by Eliezer Yudkowsky. It is the edited version of a series of blog posts in "the Sequences", and covers the ultra-high-level penultimate technique of rationality: triumphing over confirmation bias and motivated cognition.
How to actually change your mind.Actually Change Your Mind contains seven sequences of essays. These are all collected in the Rationality: From AI to Zombies ebook, but the essay names below are also linked to the original blog posts.
Posts in this collection are scattered across widely ranging dates and times.
Most important posts:
64. Hug the Query
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Posts in this collection are scattered across widely ranging dates and times.
"Jose Silva, the founder of The Silva Method, is a man I have admired for a long time. I have used The Silva Method of visualization for many years. It has helped me overcome illnesses and accidents and avoid surgery. I urge you to attend Silva training sessions." -Wayne-Wayne W. Dyer, author of Real Magic
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Most important posts:
(Heavy overlap with Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions.)
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