On how learning to think rationally is like learning to dream lucidly

And the problem with irrationality is that it depresses your natural ability to wonder if you are being irrational. One of the fundamental skills of rationality is noticing that you are confused, which also happens to be one of the fundamental skills of dealing with being chased around Venice by a giant dragon with the head of your second-grade teacher.

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CONSTANT VIGILANCE!
I am going to do something very dangerous today, something that makes me acutely aware of my own mortality. I am going to disagree with Robin Hanson. In my defense, he wrote an entire blog post cal…

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  1. Love it!  My Taiji teacher essentially said the same thing, only in a different way:  You are always practicing–the question is: what are you practicing?

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