Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman

When your method of learning about the world is biased, learning more may not help.

Everything feels extremely hard when you don’t know how to do it.

When I have a nice thing to say about someone,” she said, “now I say it to them right away, instead of waiting.

going out and actually looking at things was manual labor, and manual labor was for slaves.

people taking the whole matter seriously and trying to do something about it.

How will people recognize uniqueness if you don’t fit the standard pattern for what uniqueness is supposed to look like?

Debiasing manipulations for anchoring have generally proved not very effective.

expensive evidence that you know you can’t gather anytime soon

you haven’t closed your eyes for five minutes by the clock trying to think of a better option.