One Eliezer Yudkowsky writes about the fine art of human rationality . Over the last few decades, science has found an increasing amount to say about sanity. Probability theory and decision theory give us the formal math; and experimental psychology, particularly the subfield of cognitive biases, has shown us how…
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“I remember this paper I wrote on existentialism. My teacher gave it back with an F. She’d underlined true and truth wherever it appeared in the essay, probably about twenty times, with a question mark beside each. She wanted to know what I meant by truth.”