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There are at least two types of confirmation bias. The first is selective attention: a tendency to pay attention to, or recall, that which

A comment by AnnaSalamon on her recent article: good intellectual content Yes. I wonder if there are somehow spreadable habits of thi

Discussion article for the meetup : West LA: Futarchy WHEN: 04 November 2015 08:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 10850 West Pico Blvd, Los An

Discussion article for the meetup : West LA: Bias Bias WHEN: 28 October 2015 07:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: Westside Pavilion Mall, 1085

I've written up a rationality game which we played several times at our local LW chapter and had a lot of fun with. The idea is to put Auman

Epistemic status: playing devil's advocate. I wrote the following a couple of weeks back for a meet-up post, and Gunnar_Zarncke suggested

Discussion article for the meetup : West LA: Fact-Checking WHEN: 16 September 2015 07:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 11066 santa monica blv

Discussion article for the meetup : West LA: Fiction Considered Harmful WHEN: 09 September 2015 07:00:00PM (-0700) WHERE: 11066 san