The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
if you can’t answer this question, you need to analyze very seriously why you have this belief to begin with, because it may be based solely on dogma, which is fundamentally incompatible with persuadability.
Al Pittampalli • Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
This is why rationalists put such a heavy premium on the paradoxical-seeming claim that a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise.
Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Criticize ourselves - Have we tried to find evidence against what we believe? Why might we be wrong? What have we overlooked? What (new) information or evidence is needed to make us change our mind? When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great n
... See morePeter Bevelin • A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
The term “cognitive biases” is arguably misleading in that it suggests that believing truth would be a kind of default. Arguably, it’s amazing that we manage to believe the truth at all. If you want your beliefs to be accurate, you’re constantly swimming against your own biology and instincts.Broadly speaking, I think we can identify three reasons ... See more