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Techniques

TagLast edit: Apr 16, 2020, 7:39 PM by Ruby

A technique or rationality technique is a set of actions (including “mental actions”) for improving one’s thinking so as to form accurate beliefs and/​or make better decisions. Ideally, techniques are refined to the point that they can be taught and trained.

CFAR Par­ti­ci­pant Hand­book now available to all

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jan 3, 2020, 3:43 PM
253 points
40 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

Ta­boo Your Words

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 15, 2008, 10:53 PM
284 points
133 comments3 min readLW link

Leave a Line of Retreat

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 25, 2008, 11:57 PM
215 points
75 comments4 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux — A Strat­egy for Mu­tual Understanding

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Jan 2, 2017, 4:37 AM
193 points
108 comments12 min readLW link

Prob­lem re­lax­ation as a tactic

TurnTroutApr 22, 2020, 11:44 PM
119 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Truly Part Of You

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 21, 2007, 2:18 AM
188 points
61 comments4 min readLW link

Good­bye, Shog­goth: The Stage, its An­i­ma­tron­ics, & the Pup­peteer – a New Metaphor

RogerDearnaleyJan 9, 2024, 8:42 PM
47 points
8 comments36 min readLW link

Think­ing By The Clock

ScrewtapeNov 8, 2023, 7:40 AM
195 points
29 comments8 min readLW link1 review

So­cratic Duck­ing, OODA Loops, Frame-by-Frame Debugging

CFAR!DuncanAug 4, 2022, 5:44 PM
26 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Oct 9, 2021, 5:30 AM
198 points
124 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

One Day Sooner

ScrewtapeNov 2, 2023, 7:00 PM
117 points
8 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Tun­ing your Cog­ni­tive Strategies

Apr 27, 2023, 8:32 PM
169 points
59 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(bewelltuned.com)

Ham­mers and Nails

alkjashJan 23, 2018, 1:19 AM
98 points
35 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Focusing

CFAR!DuncanJul 29, 2022, 7:15 PM
114 points
23 comments14 min readLW link

On Tap­ping Out

ScrewtapeNov 17, 2023, 3:23 AM
51 points
14 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Why didn’t we find katas for ra­tio­nal­ity?

ChristianKlSep 14, 2021, 4:43 PM
9 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
120 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Never Drop A Ball

ScrewtapeNov 23, 2023, 4:15 AM
97 points
7 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Train­ing Regime Day 4: Murphyjitsu

Mark XuFeb 18, 2020, 5:33 PM
31 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Tak­ing a sim­plified model

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 10:21 PM
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Split and Commit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Nov 21, 2021, 6:27 AM
188 points
34 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Es­say­ing Other Plans

ScrewtapeMar 6, 2024, 10:59 PM
29 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Taste & Shaping

CFAR!DuncanJul 10, 2022, 5:50 AM
67 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!DuncanJul 22, 2022, 4:34 AM
93 points
15 comments12 min readLW link

Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!DuncanJul 24, 2022, 6:34 AM
61 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

Turbocharging

CFAR!DuncanAug 2, 2022, 12:01 AM
52 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Vi­sual Men­tal Imagery Training

SarahNibsFeb 19, 2013, 10:21 PM
36 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

Mnestics

Jarred FilmerOct 23, 2022, 12:30 AM
120 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Directed Babbling

Yudhister KumarFeb 1, 2023, 9:10 AM
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.ykumar.org)

The Third Fun­da­men­tal Question

ScrewtapeNov 15, 2024, 4:01 AM
66 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Skills from a year of Pur­pose­ful Ra­tion­al­ity Practice

RaemonSep 18, 2024, 2:05 AM
187 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

Chain Breaking

Mark XuDec 29, 2020, 1:06 AM
23 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 20: OODA Loop

Mark XuApr 24, 2020, 6:11 PM
27 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Rationalization

dspeyerJan 15, 2020, 10:55 AM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Key De­ci­sion Anal­y­sis—a fun­da­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity technique

Eli TyreJan 12, 2020, 5:59 AM
44 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

A Pro­cess for Deal­ing with Mo­ti­vated Reasoning

Vaughn PapenhausenSep 3, 2018, 3:34 AM
15 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Fix it and tell us what you did

JulianMorrisonApr 23, 2009, 2:54 PM
49 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Con­crete Take­aways Post-CFAR

lifelonglearnerFeb 24, 2017, 6:31 PM
20 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

What are the Best Ham­mers in the Ra­tion­al­ist Com­mu­nity?

Bound_upJan 24, 2018, 2:43 PM
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Seven habits to­wards highly effec­tive minds

Richard_NgoSep 5, 2019, 11:10 PM
38 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

My ver­sion of Si­mu­lacra Levels

Daniel KokotajloApr 26, 2023, 3:50 PM
42 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Be­com­ing Unusu­ally Truth-Oriented

abramdemskiJan 3, 2020, 1:27 AM
89 points
20 comments10 min readLW link

My First Post

Jaivardhan NawaniSep 6, 2023, 5:42 PM
35 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 24: Re­solve Cy­cles 2

Mark XuApr 28, 2020, 7:00 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 25: Re­cur­sive Self-Im­prove­ment

Mark XuApr 29, 2020, 6:22 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Com­plex Signs Bad

EvenstarJul 3, 2023, 1:09 PM
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

A frame­work for speed reading

limerottSep 16, 2019, 6:52 PM
27 points
6 comments11 min readLW link
(limerott.com)

TSR #3 En­train­ment: Discussion

HazardDec 1, 2017, 4:46 PM
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Re­place the Sym­bol with the Substance

Eliezer YudkowskyFeb 16, 2008, 6:12 PM
92 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Do you do weekly or daily re­views? What are they like?

benwrAug 5, 2019, 1:23 AM
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Share Your Anti-Akra­sia Tricks

Vladimir_GolovinMay 15, 2009, 7:06 PM
25 points
120 comments1 min readLW link

Akra­sia Tac­tics Re­view 2: The Akra­sia Strikes Back

polutroponJul 16, 2013, 2:17 AM
31 points
44 comments2 min readLW link

Use­ful Ques­tions Repository

Qiaochu_YuanJul 25, 2013, 2:58 AM
40 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Pos­i­tive Queries—How Fetching

BenquoApr 30, 2014, 2:24 AM
37 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

Back Up and Ask Whether, Not Why

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 6, 2008, 7:20 PM
54 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Catch­ing the Spark

LoganStrohlJan 30, 2021, 11:23 PM
117 points
21 comments36 min readLW link1 review

Why you should try a live read­ing session

Nihal MJun 26, 2021, 8:30 AM
13 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How to gen­er­ate idea/​solu­tions to solve a prob­lem?

warrenjordanOct 29, 2021, 12:53 AM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

De­po­si­tions and Rationality

Pablo RepettoNov 4, 2021, 12:10 AM
22 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Pre­mortem as com­mu­ni­ca­tion de­vice (e.g. in re­la­tion­ship)

becausecuriousApr 4, 2022, 6:53 PM
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Con­sume fic­tion wisely

RomanSJan 21, 2022, 8:23 PM
−9 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Gears-Level Un­der­stand­ing, De­liber­ate Perfor­mance, The Strate­gic Level

CFAR!DuncanAug 5, 2022, 5:11 PM
30 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Area un­der the curve, Eat Dirt, Broc­coli Er­rors, Coper­ni­cus & Chaos

CFAR!DuncanAug 8, 2022, 8:17 AM
40 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

A sim­ple tech­nique to re­duce nega­tive rumination

cranberry_bearFeb 2, 2023, 1:33 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

the un­der­es­ti­ma­tion of cir­cu­lar thinking

AxiomWriterMar 30, 2024, 9:45 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Tun­ing Metacognition

JoNeedsSleepJul 3, 2024, 7:54 PM
8 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Thoughts that prompt good fore­casts: A survey

Daniel_FriedrichFeb 26, 2025, 6:36 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Myths about Non­d­u­al­ity and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim GolubJan 15, 2025, 6:33 PM
2 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

“Think it Faster” worksheet

RaemonFeb 8, 2025, 10:02 PM
59 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

The ‘5 Main Mus­cles of Move­ment’ Made Easy.

leggiDec 7, 2019, 9:17 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Phys­i­cal al­ign­ment—do you have it? Take a minute & check.

leggiFeb 5, 2020, 4:02 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Unoffi­cial Canon on Ap­plied Rationality

ScottLFeb 15, 2016, 1:03 PM
65 points
32 comments23 min readLW link

Prob­lem Solv­ing with Mazes and Crayon

johnswentworthJun 19, 2018, 6:15 AM
152 points
28 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How do you do post mortems?

mattoDec 3, 2023, 2:46 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Body Align­ment & Balance. Our Midline Anatomy & the Me­dian Plane.

leggiAug 22, 2019, 10:24 AM
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Two Truths and a Lie

PsychohistorianDec 23, 2009, 6:34 AM
70 points
67 comments2 min readLW link

How to brain­storm effectively

PECOS-9May 19, 2012, 9:29 PM
63 points
27 comments6 min readLW link

Speci­fic­ity: Your Brain’s Superpower

LironSep 2, 2019, 12:53 PM
85 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

11 core ra­tio­nal­ist skills

RokoDec 2, 2009, 8:09 AM
72 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­nal Dou­ble Crux

alkjashMar 19, 2018, 5:50 AM
49 points
35 comments3 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Su­per­hu­man Meta Process

SquirrelInHellJan 3, 2018, 1:39 PM
21 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Tak­ing the Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

lifelonglearnerMar 22, 2018, 5:22 PM
15 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Fight Bi­ases, or Route Around Them?

Scott AlexanderMar 25, 2009, 10:23 PM
29 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Make an ap­point­ment with your saner self

MalcolmOceanFeb 8, 2019, 5:05 AM
28 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Re­duc­tion­ism Revisited

alkjashMar 20, 2018, 6:00 AM
11 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Train­ing Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark XuFeb 14, 2020, 8:22 AM
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 1: What is ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity?

Mark XuFeb 15, 2020, 9:03 PM
33 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 2: Search­ing for bugs

Mark XuFeb 16, 2020, 5:16 PM
31 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 3: Tips and Tricks

Mark XuFeb 17, 2020, 6:53 PM
24 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 6: Seek­ing Sense

Mark XuFeb 20, 2020, 5:33 PM
10 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 7: Goal Factoring

Mark XuFeb 21, 2020, 5:55 PM
13 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 8: Noticing

Mark XuFeb 22, 2020, 7:47 PM
31 points
7 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Train­ing Regime Day 9: Dou­ble-Crux

Mark XuFeb 23, 2020, 6:08 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 10: Systemization

Mark XuFeb 24, 2020, 5:20 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 11: So­cratic Ducking

Mark XuFeb 25, 2020, 5:19 PM
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 12: Focusing

Mark XuFeb 26, 2020, 7:07 PM
12 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 13: Re­solve Cycles

Mark XuFeb 27, 2020, 5:45 PM
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 14: Traf­fic Jams

Mark XuFeb 28, 2020, 5:52 PM
11 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 15: CoZE

Mark XuFeb 29, 2020, 5:13 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 16: Ham­ming Questions

Mark XuMar 1, 2020, 6:46 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 17: Deflinch­ing and Lines of Retreat

Mark XuApr 21, 2020, 5:45 PM
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 18: Nega­tive Vi­su­al­iza­tion

Mark XuApr 22, 2020, 4:06 PM
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 19: Ham­ming Ques­tions for Pot­ted Plants

Mark XuApr 23, 2020, 4:00 PM
47 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 21: Ex­e­cut­ing Intentions

Mark XuApr 25, 2020, 10:16 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 22: Mur­phyjitsu 2

Mark XuApr 26, 2020, 8:18 PM
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing Regime Day 23: TAPs 2

Mark XuApr 27, 2020, 5:37 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
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