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Learning about Rationality with Steven Pinker
00:00 - 06:27 (06:27)
Steven Pinker talks about the importance of knowing cognitive tricks to avoid biases and how naming fallacies and normative models can help deal with novel situations. The episode contains ads for BetterHelp and LMNT.
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In this episode, Steven Pinker talks about the importance of knowing cognitive tricks and fallacies to avoid them and reason better in novel and abstract situations.
00:00 - 06:27 (06:27)
Rationality
Summary
In this episode, Steven Pinker talks about the importance of knowing cognitive tricks and fallacies to avoid them and reason better in novel and abstract situations. They also discuss the limitations of learning about biases and cognitive mechanisms in making people more rational.