The Power to Be Wrong

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I feel like there's this superpower that people don't really talk about, which is just knowing what is true about yourself so that you are impervious to external perspective on that aspect. And I think one thing that's really helped me is a thinker is just being scrutinized so many times by so many people because I'm not too scared to put ideas out. If you don't feel emotionally safe to be wrong, then learning about biases your brain will resist the lesson. You just have to like feel it in your heart, but it's kind of okay if you were wrong. Only then you can start actually looking for cases where you might be wrong because you fail for one bias or the

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What's the best way to teach rationality? How do you communicate rationalist principles to people who aren't already interested in thinking more clearly? What has COVID taught us about how people typically make decisions and think about problems? Where and how can the rationalist community improve? Does rationalism have anything to say about (for example) exercise, spirituality, art, or other parts of the human experience that aren't typically addressed by rationalists? What are some positive aspects of social media (especially Twitter)? What's going on with recent dating trends? Has dating gotten harder in recent years? How many people does it take to make a pencil? Is there a case to be made for anti-antinatalism?

Jacob is the only rationalist with an MBA. He writes Putanumonit.com and is famous for bringing the idea of decision matrices to the pages of the Economist and the New York Times. Jacob is Russian-Israeli and is currently living in Brooklyn with his wife and two guinea pigs. Follow him on Twitter at @yashkaf.

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