This might be useful for staying honest to yourself and perhaps your allies, but it’s also useful to keep in mind that most people give different kinds of lies different degrees of moral weight.
Nice list, even a bit that’s basic enough that I can put it into an Anki deck about teaching rationality (a long term project of mine but at the moment I doesn’t have enough cards for release).
This is a fun exercise. The list could be a lot longer than I originally expected.
belief is about evidence
0 and 1 are not probabilities
Occam’s razor
strawman and steelman
privileging the hypothesis
tabooing
instrumental-terminal distinction of values
don’t pull probabilities out of your posterior
introspection is often wrong
intuitions are often wrong
general concept of heuristics and biases
confirmation and disconfirmation bias
halo effect
knowing about biases doesn’t unbias you
denotations and connotations
many more
“not technically lying” is de facto lying
This might be useful for staying honest to yourself and perhaps your allies, but it’s also useful to keep in mind that most people give different kinds of lies different degrees of moral weight.
Nice list, even a bit that’s basic enough that I can put it into an Anki deck about teaching rationality (a long term project of mine but at the moment I doesn’t have enough cards for release).