Julia Galef | The Benefits of Seeing the World as It Is
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Seeing Yourself as Rational Can Backfire
The more objective you think you are the more you trust your own intuitions and opinions as accurate representations of reality. And so, unfortunately, that alone the feeling of being objective and rational is not sufficient to conclude that you actually are objective and rational. We can kind of objectively obsess or objectively assess our own objectivity which we can't. Become really uncurious about your own blind spots because you don't really think that they even exist. If you know that there's a risk that you might be subjective instead of Objective then you're not going to do the legwork to find your own blind spot.
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