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  1. clearerthinking.org

    Jan 24, 2024Instrumental rationality, on the other hand, is the capacity and propensity to choose our actions so as to effectively pursue our goals and values. People with greater instrumental rationality tend to make decisions in such a way that they achieve what they are aiming to achieve. ... People who are more epistemically rational think hard about ...
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  3. exploringyourmind.com

    So why is it so hard for us to make rational decisions? This question is the center of many debates, research, and scientific theories. In this article, we'll look at some of the key aspects of the issue. We'll try to show that people are much more rational than people tend to think and systematically explain reasoning.
  4. psychology.stackexchange.com

    So, when you challenge their belief, you are not just challenging some rational thought, but rather challenging how their world works and who they are. When that happens, there is considerable cognitive dissonance, and people start doing mental gymnastics to find a way out of the situation.
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  6. ethicalpsychology.com

    Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? Joshua Rothman. The New Yorker. Originally published 16 Aug 21. Here is an excerpt: Knowing about what you know is Rationality 101. The advanced coursework has to do with changes in your knowledge. ... So-called Bayesian reasoning—a particular thinking technique, with its own distinctive jargon—has become ...
  7. "Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?" Jan 3, 2022 1 min read Link post, Thinking, Decisions. Joshua Rothman writing in the New Yorker 1 about rational thinking: In Silicon Valley, people wear T-shirts that say "Update Your Priors," but talking like a rationalist doesn't make you one. A person can drone on about base rates with which he's ...
  8. thecommonsapp.com

    Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? ... argued that the unmasking of allegedly pseudo-rational institutions had become the central drama of our age: people around the world, having concluded that the bigwigs in our colleges, newsrooms, and legislatures were better at appearing rational than at being so, had embraced a nihilist populism that sees ...
  9. trenthead.com

    Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? The real challenge isn't being right but knowing how wrong you might be. via The New ... I adopted his habit of tracking what I knew and how well I knew it, so that I could separate my well-founded opinions from my provisional views. Bad investors, Greg told me, often had flat, loosely drawn maps of their own ...
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