Part A And Stuff Before That Flashcards
Is changing your mind good?
If you don’t realize that past you was stupid, you’re doing it wrong. That doesn’t mean that you should be harsh to past or present or even future you over it, it just means that you can’t know that you’ve grown as a person unless you recognize that past you was an uniformed idiot. Relatively speaking. Compared to present you.
What is a cognitive bias?
A systematic manner in which the very way that your brain works is preventing you from finding the truth and/or your goals
Does rationality mean that I shouldn’t have emotions?
No, it means that you should ideally have emotions that are appropriate to the actual situation. Sometimes this is considered acceptable by society, sometimes it’s not. But absence of emotion is not inherently rational, nor is calm not an emotion.
What is the bias blind spot?
The more you see biases in other people, the harder it is to recognize them in yourself. The more intelligent and knowledgeable you are, the more susceptible you are to this bias
Epistemic rationality
Systematically improving the accuracy of your beliefs
Instrumental rationality
Systematically achieving your goal and satisfying your values
Availability Heuristic
When the availability of examples to you mind influence the probability you assign to the likelihood of something
Conjunction fallacy
“This happens” is ALWAYS more probable than “this AND that happens”
No matter what this and that are. Because probability is not additive it’s multiplicative when adding details.
Planning fallacy
When making plans for how long something will take, use the outside view, not the inside
Illusion of transparency
Your intentions are clear to yourself. They are NOT necessarily clear to others as a result
Short inferential distances
Take explanations one step at a time starting with the present understanding of the person. Avoid coming off as condescending
The lens that sees itself
Humans can do metacognition. That means we can catch the distortion caused by our own lens and correct for them with some effort
