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Related to: Could auto-generated troll scores reduce Twitter and Facebook harassments?, Do we underuse the genetic heuristic? and Book revie

Motte and bailey is a technique by which one protects an interesting but hard-to-defend view by making it similar to a less interesting but

Connected to: The Argument from Crisis and Pessimism Bias When we predict the future, we often seem to underestimate the degree to which p

Here is a new paper of mine (12 pages) on suspicious agreement between belief and values. The idea is that if your empirical beliefs systema

I think it does among the cognitive elite, and that this explains the rise of complex but good ideas such as applied rationality and Effecti

Cross-posted from Huffington Post. See also The End of Bullshit at the Hands of Critical Rationalism. Debating season is in full swing, and

The prediction expert Philip Tetlock writes in New York Times on the power of precise predictions to counter political polarization. Note th