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This brings me to the single most obvious notion that correct contrarians grasp, and that people who have vastly overestimated their own competence don’t realize: It takes far less work to identify the correct expert in a pre-existing dispute between experts, than to make an original contribution to any field that is remotely healthy.

Eliezer Yudkowsky • Inadequate Equilibria

I’m pretty set on promoting life-long education as the most important thing. Getting people to be curious, in this time when you can access almost every piece of information in the world, is the best possible thing to do to try to help all humans.It’s crazy how things feel in the absolute opposite direction right now in regards to the internet and ... See more

thecreativeindependent.com • Charles Broskoski on Self-Discovery That Happens Upon Revisiting Things You’ve Accumulated Over Time

Open-minded people genuinely believe they could be wrong; the questions that they ask are genuine.

Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work

When you think of someone with excellent judgment, what traits come to mind? Maybe you think of things like intelligence, cleverness, courage, or patience. Those are all admirable virtues, but there’s one trait that belongs at the top of the list that is so overlooked, it doesn’t even have an official name. So I’ve given it one. I call it scout min

Julia Galef • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

Patrick Collison's advice on how to change the world: https://t.co/WyRf4ACTU1

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The Meditation on Curiosity—Roger Zelazny once distinguished between “wanting to be an author” versus “wanting to write,” and there is likewise a distinction between wanting to have investigated and wanting to investigate. It is not enough to say “It is my duty to criticize my own beliefs”; you must be curious, and only uncertainty can create curio

Eliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality

A surprisingly powerful trick when you’re learning about a new field is to start off by committing to strong beliefs about core facts and adjusting that belief over time based on evidence, instead of going in with an open mind.

Andy Masley • Strategies for Learning

they question and rethink their own assumptions, readily admit and learn from mistakes, moderate their confidence in a given hypothesis based on the strength of the evidence, and actively keep their own biases in check. But it also means they push for deep understanding (e.g., via identification of first principles) on issues that really matter, au... See more

Gena Gorlin • Intellectual Humility Is a Cop-Out

Intellectual Humility Has Recently Been Hailed as the Key to Thinking Well. The Story of Barbara McClintock Proves Otherwise

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