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Who Must Be Persuaded By Explanations (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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The Dangers of Alcohol Interventions

I think it's likely that any attempt I make to deal with this problem will be infected by the fact that I am susceptible to this problem. And if that's your response to your alcoholics intervention, then of course, you're not going to fix your problem. There's a strong temptation to flatter yourself by thinking that you can see through things that other people can't see through. It could actually be making it worse. That critique that you just expressed could be applied to any time anyone ever points out any problem.

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