EDIT: Sorry to add to the comment after Carl’s response. I had the above list in there already, but omitted an “http://”, which caused the second half of my sentence to somehow not show up.
There’s Robyn Dawes’s Rational Choice in an Uncertain World which is highly similar in spirit, intent, and style to the kind of defeat-the-bias writing in the Sequences. (And it’s quoted accordingly when I borrow something.)
It’s balkanized, but a lot of psychologists have written on overcoming the biases they study, e.g. the Implicit Attitude Test researchers suggesting that people keep pictures of outstanding individuals from groups for which they have a negative IAT around, or Cialdini talking about how to avoid being influenced by the social psychology effects he discusses in Influence.
Okay, yes, I’ve read some of that. But how much of rationality were you practicing before you ran into Eliezer’s work? And where did you learn it? Also, are there other attempts at general textbooks?
Double also, are there sources of rationality “how to” content you’d recommend whose content I probably haven’t learned from Eliezer’s posts, besides the academic heuristics and biases literature?
I read decision theory, game theory, economics, evolutionary biology, epistemology, and psychology (including the heuristics and biases program), then tried to apply them to everyday life.
I’m not aware of any general rationality textbooks or how-to guides, although there are sometimes sections discussing elements in guides for other things. There are pop science books on rationality research, like Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, but they’re rarely ‘how-to’ focused to the same extent as OB/LW.
How much non-Eliezer stuff is there on the practical “how to” of rationality, e.g. on techniques for improving one’s accuracy in the manner that Something to protect, Leave a line of retreat, The bottom line, and taking care not to rehearse the evidence might improve one’s accuracy?
EDIT: Sorry to add to the comment after Carl’s response. I had the above list in there already, but omitted an “http://”, which caused the second half of my sentence to somehow not show up.
There’s Robyn Dawes’s Rational Choice in an Uncertain World which is highly similar in spirit, intent, and style to the kind of defeat-the-bias writing in the Sequences. (And it’s quoted accordingly when I borrow something.)
It’s balkanized, but a lot of psychologists have written on overcoming the biases they study, e.g. the Implicit Attitude Test researchers suggesting that people keep pictures of outstanding individuals from groups for which they have a negative IAT around, or Cialdini talking about how to avoid being influenced by the social psychology effects he discusses in Influence.
Okay, yes, I’ve read some of that. But how much of rationality were you practicing before you ran into Eliezer’s work? And where did you learn it? Also, are there other attempts at general textbooks?
Double also, are there sources of rationality “how to” content you’d recommend whose content I probably haven’t learned from Eliezer’s posts, besides the academic heuristics and biases literature?
I read decision theory, game theory, economics, evolutionary biology, epistemology, and psychology (including the heuristics and biases program), then tried to apply them to everyday life.
I’m not aware of any general rationality textbooks or how-to guides, although there are sometimes sections discussing elements in guides for other things. There are pop science books on rationality research, like Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, but they’re rarely ‘how-to’ focused to the same extent as OB/LW.
Yes—where else is there an attempt to put together a coherent and in some sense complete account of what rationality is and how to reach it?