Pas­cal’s Mug­ging: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Paris Hilton

“Can’t Say No” Spending

Hold Off On Propos­ing Solutions

The Log­i­cal Fal­lacy of Gen­er­al­iza­tion from Fic­tional Evidence

The Mean­ing That Im­mor­tal­ity Gives to Life

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Origi­nal Seeing

The “Out­side the Box” Box

Cached Thoughts

Do We Believe Every­thing We’re Told?

Prim­ing and Contamination

A Priori

No One Can Ex­empt You From Ra­tion­al­ity’s Laws

Singlethink

The Med­i­ta­tion on Curiosity

Avoid­ing Your Belief’s Real Weak Points

We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think

Prob­a­bil­ity is the oil of rationalisation

A Ra­tional Argument

Recom­mended Ra­tion­al­ist Reading

Rationalization

What Ev­i­dence Filtered Ev­i­dence?

Is out­do­ing mon­keys while imag­in­ing free will the only way you can feel like a man?

The Bot­tom Line

How to Con­vince Me That 2 + 2 = 3

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Oc­cam’s Razor

Ein­stein’s Arrogance

How Much Ev­i­dence Does It Take?

The Lens That Sees Its Flaws

What is Ev­i­dence?

Bur­den­some Details

Con­junc­tion Con­tro­versy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

Con­junc­tion Fallacy

Kah­ne­man’s Plan­ning Anecdote

Plan­ning Fallacy

Why I’m Blooking

Dou­ble­think (Choos­ing to be Bi­ased)

Hu­man Evil and Mud­dled Thinking

Ra­tion­al­ity and the English Language

Ap­plause Lights

We Don’t Really Want Your Participation

Rad­i­cal Honesty

The Crack­pot Offer

An­chor­ing and Adjustment

Why is the Fu­ture So Ab­surd?

So much for the fac­tual pub­lic de­bate that democ­ra­cies com­pletely fail to be built on

Availability

Ab­sur­dity Heuris­tic, Ab­sur­dity Bias