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Scout and Soldier Mindsets (with Julia Galef)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to Improve Reasoning and Decision Making
I've been focused for the last 10, 15 years in my career and I guess just in my personal life as well on understanding how to improve reasoning and decision making. In 2012, I co-founded this educational nonprofit called the Center for Applied Rationality. And it's kind of obviously not true in retrospect that just knowing a lot about cognitive biases and logical fallacies will help you. It started to seem much more to me like the bottleneck for improving reasoning was not so much about knowing how to reason but instead about being motivated to use that reasoning in the service of figuring things out.
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